For America’s 250th, Often-Overlooked New Jersey Wants a Prominent Role

politico.com

At America’s next big birthday party, New Jersey doesn’t want to be a flare in the fireworks show. It is, after all, a place like no other in the country’s founding — where George Washington led a ragtag army to unlikely victories that helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War. Without the battles in New Jersey, there may not even be an America.