Founders

Independence Day in America. A day where you can catch many waving flags and singing anthems in celebration of their status as Americans. But if you’re a woman or a person of color and this was 1776, you couldn’t really call yourself American. You couldn’t even vote and didn't have many rights. Historian Douglas Bradburn talks about what it looked like to be an American at the nation's founding and how that's changed in the last 245 years. Bradburn is president of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and author of “The Citizenship Revolution.” (Originally aired: June 15th, 2020)