At the time, Americans weren’t agreed on which day to celebrate. In an article for American Heritage, historian Pauline Maier ...

And, rewinding just a tad further: Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee first introduced ... a growing number of colonists had started to favor the idea of independence from Great Britain. Independence ...

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