America

At 245, America’s Old Enough to Be Honest About Its Founding

Celebrating July 4th, 1898, "the triumph of the American battle-ship" by Udo Keppler, 1872-1956, artist, 1898. Uncle Sam sitting with John Bull, who is a sailor representing England, and six figures representing "Spain", "Italy" (Umberto I), "Austria" (Franz Joseph I), "France", Germany (William II), and "Russia" (Nicholas II), watching a fireworks display that shows the outline of a huge American battleship that illuminates the ruins of the "Spanish Fleet", and in the clouds of smoke shows portraits of "Schley, Sampson, Hobson and Dewey". (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

And now that we’re 245, it seems as though we should be old enough to take an honest look at various dumb and awful things about our birth, and stop believing in preposterous myths.

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