What Trump doesn't get about America's 250th

A forgotten New York holiday and the values worth celebrating

Rendering of the proposed triumphal arch in Washington, D.C. The golden lions shown here have since been dropped from the plan. (US Commission of Fine Arts.)

On the morning of November 25, 1783, the last of the defeated British troops left the soil of New York City. It was the end of a seven-year-long occupation. Yet as the redcoats headed to their ship…