Six stories on southern Arizona’s role in America 250

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:

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.

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.

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.