Tag: fourth of july

This Fourth of July reflection explores the tension between myth and truth in American history, asking what we choose to remember—and why it still matters.

Today is a day to mourn. Two Idaho firefighters responding to a brush fire at Coeur d’Alene’s Canfield Mountain were shot dead and a third badly injured.

The 61st Annual Freedom at the Arboretum event begins at noon this Fourth of July at John A. Finch Arboretum with an opening concert and a meet-and-greet candidates program at 1:15 p.m.

Yet our adolescent democratic republic remains unfinished. Despite its influence on the world stage, it struggles to live up to the potential embodied in its name

Movie musicals are fantasies, in general. But there is real history in “1776,” compressed, synthesized, and often subordinated to narrative drama, of course. But that history, such as it is, is more relevant now than when the film debuted.

On the Fourth of July we celebrate the United States as an exceptional country — at least, we used to.

Actually, we declared independence on July 2 (and because of the times) it took until Aug. 12 for everyone to come together for the full signing of the Declaration: a grand idea that became one of the greatest nations in history.