Category: Holidays

History of the Independence Day On July 4, 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence(at that time known as “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America”) in Philadelphia, PA. This document declared that the Thirteen Colonies were “Free and Independent States” and that “all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.” The above image of the Declaration is taken from the engraving made by printer William J. Stone in 1823.You can see an actual scan of the Declaration of Independence here. The celebration of Independence Day didn’t…

In the “Stars and Stripes”, the official National symbol of the United States of America was authorized by congress on that Saturday of June 14, 1777 in the fifth item of the days agenda. The entry in the journal of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 Vol. Vlll 1777 reads “Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be Thirteen stripes alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” Waubeka, Wisconsin, in 1885 Bernard John Cigrand a nineteen year old school teacher in a one room school placed a 10”…