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The American Revolution Wasn’t That Big a Deal
Daniel Immerwahr on the scholarship deprovincializing 1776, including “Republic and Empire,” by Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy; and “Freedom Round the Globe,” by Sarah Pearsall.
Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Complicated Commemorations
Jelani Cobb on observing the Declaration of Independence on previous landmark anniversaries—in the wake of the Civil War, the Vietnam War, Watergate—and why we are unlikely to see Donald Trump presiding over nuanced celebrations of our history this July 4th.