Â鶹AV

News

The Founding Father you’ve never heard of

Published: 4 July 2019

In the age of “America First,” it’s easy to remember July 4 as the day we Americans resolved to go it alone. As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, the people of the 13 colonies had “totally dissolved” their ties to the British Empire and could henceforth do whatever “Independent States may of right do.”

[Op-ed] - J.M. Opal, Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies

Back to top