Ideas
America at 250
An unexpected history
The Boston Tea Party’s international roots
The Americans weren’t the only ones resisting British rule in 1773.
By Sarah M.S. Pearsall
By Ted Widmer
No, Philadelphia doesn’t get all the glory.
The Declaration of Independence
has a Boston accent
By Michael Shermer
On our 250th anniversary, a different look at America’s founding document
The science of the Declaration of Independence
By Abdallah Fayyad
James Wilson hated the idea of the Senate and the Electoral College. What would he think of America today?
The Founding Father you’ve probably
never heard of
By Mia Rose Kohn
What our Founders wanted
By Danielle Allen
The fight for democracy has
always been a transnational cause.
The British duke who played an outsize role in the American Revolution
By Rich Benjamin
The administration would like us to turn a blind eye to much of our history. My family, three generations of Black educators, has learned how to fight forgetting the past.
Trump’s Task Force 250 is a project of collective amnesia
Design by Heather Hopp-Bruce
Image credits: Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe Staff; Danik63/AMIDCO/eurobanks/undrey/Adobe; British Library; Mia Kohn; New York Public Library; Sir Godfrey Kneller
COMING JULY 2
By Alyssa Rosenberg
Educators and students from across the state reflect on what surprises them about the American Revolution.
Teaching a new generation
about America’s founding is an exercise in hope
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Read the full
text of the Declaration of Independence
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