As Americans celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday with parades, speeches, fireworks and other patriotic traditions, much attention will focus on familiar symbols of our history — monuments, battlefields, historic landmarks.
Yet Independence Day also lets us reflect on lesser-known stories of people and places that illuminate the ideals on which our nation was founded. One such place is Hero Street, a stone’s throw from the Mississippi Rive…
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