![]() This might be a good summer to read 1776 by David McCullough. Looking back over 238 years, with America now an affluent global superpower, it’s hard for Americans to get a sense for just how unlikely (humanly speaking) it was that the 13 United States of America defeated Great Britain in a war and survived as an independent nation. ![]() Regardless, it was a bold, very risky move for the signers of the Declaration. People still debate over whether or not Britain’s offenses warranted colonial secession and war. July 4th is the day we commemorate the Continental Congress’s declaration of independence from the nation of Great Britain. ![]()
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