Happy 4th of July ... In order to fully understand the significance of Independence Day and what happened in 1776, we need to go back in history a bit. Before America was its own country, it ...

It is the anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Celebrating the day became common only after ...

On July 4, 1776 ... their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, Americans ...

On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. As always, this most American ...

We are proud to offer the Goodspeed's-Sang-Streeter copy of the July 1776 Essex broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. “An expression of the American mind," according to Thomas ...