The Arizona Daily Star's website has no paywall for the 4th of July weekend. It's a great time to catch up on the Arizona Daily Star's reporting on southern Arizona's contributions to the past 250 years of American history:
Participants in a kids' Bicentennial parade in Tucson on July 1, 1976.
On America's upcoming 250th birthday, will Tucson party like it's 1876? This story, published in April, takes a look back at how Southern Arizona celebrated previous milestone Independence Days.
Participants in the ceremony at the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson stand near the various flags that have flown over the city as they mark its 233rd birthday in 2008.
Flagging some tangled Tucson history as America prepares to turn 250. Famously, five different flags have flown over Tucson during the past 250 years, but that's only part of the story. Read all about it in this banner report from May.
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Sandra Day O'Connor speaking at her 1981 confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court.
10 Southern Arizona figures who made their mark on American history. If Mount Rushmore — or maybe Mount Lemmon — had 10 faces on it, these standout Southern Arizonans might be the ones worthy of being carving there.
Major Charles Young, served in the U.S. Army and was the third African American to graduate from West Point and first to become a colonel.
Historical figures with Southern Arizona ties. As a companion to the Star's profiles of the region's top figures from American history, this list of 100 important figures with Southern Arizona connections was published in late June.
A Daughters of the American Revolution plaque at the Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón at 196 N. Court Ave. in downtown Tucson.
Tucson Presidio chipped in to support upstart colonists during American Revolution. Few communities west of the Rockies can claim any part in helping the United States win its independence, but some late-18th-century inhabitants of Tucson literally contributed to the cause.
The commemorative pen used by President William Howard Taft to sign Arizona into statehood on February 14, 1912.
250 years in 26 objects: New exhibit uses Arizona artifacts to tell American tale. At its museum in Tucson, the Arizona Historical Society is exploring the nation's history through the lens of local objects.
Rescue plan in works for tiny endangered turtle in path of second Arizona border wall
