Indeed, the Founders would have been hopeless without them. To begin to piece together a fuller history of the Revolution, ...

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A scorching heat wave in Europe, a bonfire celebration in Argentina, a Pride parade in Seattle, semiquincentennial ...

This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall is the first such event to be designated a “National Special ...

I leveled out as a captain in the Army (a courtesy, really, because I got the promotion as I went on inactive status), and ...

On July 4, 1976, as America celebrated its bicentennial, four C-130 aircraft flew blind over the dark waters of the Red Sea ...

But if a Spaniard played such an important role in the founding, and if Pensacola—which sits in a deep-red county of a ...

The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.

Steven B. Smith is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His latest book, On Statesmanship, will be published by Yale this August.