“San Francisco and the Unfinished Promise of 1776”

“San Francisco and the Unfinished Promise of 1776”

In the mythology of history, 1776 belongs to Philadelphia: declarations, rebellion and the birth of the United States. Yet on the far edge of a continent the revolutionaries hadn’t fully imagined, another founding was quietly unfolding that same year. While Thomas Jefferson drafted ideals of liberty and self-government in the… Continue reading