American Classics Worth Celebrating This July

American writers give a narrative, a drama, a protagonist, and a rhetoric to the civic principles we extol every Fourth of July.

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Commentary

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, celebrations and commentaries will rightly hail the document and other civic and political touchstones of our history. The declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address, and many secondary statements such as Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise speech of 1895 make up a civic corpus unequaled by any other nation in human history.