‘America Bad’ Isn’t the Right Theme for America’s 250th

Today, with only two more stories to go before the Fourth of July and America’s 250th, I’ll write about an awful exhibition at the Hispanic Society — a first in my experience — and the oversized but little-known role of Spain in supporting the Patriot cause in the American Revolution. That’s the show the museum should have done instead of the wacko woke thing pushed on us.

The neighborhood around the Hispanic Society is thick with Revolutionary War history. A few weeks ago, I visited the nearby Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest house in Manhattan, Washington’s headquarters during the Battle of Harlem Heights, and the home of Eliza Jumel, her era’s hellion with a downright chromatic past, for a time New York’s richest woman, and briefly Mrs. Aaron Burr. Her house is a short walk from the Hispanic Society on Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets.

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

Today, with only two more stories to go before the Fourth of July and America’s 250th, I’ll write about an awful exhibition at the Hispanic Society — a first in my experience — and the oversized but little-known role of Spain in supporting the Patriot cause in the American Revolution. That’s the show the museum should have done instead of the wacko woke thing pushed on us.

The neighborhood around the Hispanic Society is thick with Revolutionary War history. A few weeks ago, I visited the nearby Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest house in Manhattan, Washington’s headquarters during the Battle of Harlem Heights, and the home of Eliza Jumel, her era’s hellion with a downright chromatic past, for a time New York’s richest woman, and briefly Mrs. Aaron Burr. Her house is a short walk from the Hispanic Society on Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets.