Celebrating July Fourth with Abe Maslow and Margaret Mead
Psychology Today | 04.07.2026 19:21
If you're feeling ambivalent about celebrating this Fourth of July, you're in good company. As Abraham Maslow's biographer, I've found no evidence that he specifically noted our nation's birthday. However, his famous colleague and friend, anthropologist Margaret Mead, did so on the momentous bicentennial in 1976. Like Maslow, Mead became a celebrity intellectual with a warm, genial persona; she emphasized social science as a path to creating a better world for people everywhere.
