Touring Independence Hall on July 4 is a favorite ... My favorite part of the tour is George Washington’s chair from the Constitutional Convention. It’s a relic that can be seen as a symbol ...

Benjamin Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” To which ...

Hall was born in Connecticut ... When another delegate to the Constitutional Convention suggested that the colonies weren’t yet ripe for independence, he famously replied that they were ...