The United States we celebrate at 250 is only one of many possible Americas

In the predawn hours of Dec. 31, 1775, American soldiers advanced through a blizzard toward the old stone walls of Quebec City. Their boots slipped on ice. Wet gunpowder jammed their muskets. The city’s defenders pushed them back with withering cannon fire. By the time the sun rose, hundreds of Americans were dead, wounded, or […]