Our Independence Day history is quite simply a Fourth of July celebration of the day that our founding fathers committed treason against the British Empire. They put their very lives on the line to declare the United States independent of foreign overseers. And so began our War for Independence and the birth of this great nation, based on radical beliefs that free men could better govern themselves than an oppressive centralized government. Read more below and see a video.
On July 4, 1776 the members of the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and adopted the final draft of the Declaration of Independence. In so doing, they committed treason against Great Britain, a crime punishable by death.
‘And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.’ ~ The Declaration of Independence
The first celebration of the anniversary of the colonies’ Declaration of Independence was celebrated with gun fire, fireworks, lighting candles and ringing bells. That declaration was only the beginning of gaining independence. The British weren’t taken with the idea of losing their American colonies, so the war and bloodshed raged on until 1783. In the end, the rag-tag American farmers defeated the most powerful Armies of the time and earned their independence. This is the heritage and the gift they passed on the every generation of Americans since.
Read the rest of this entry and see a moving video reading of our Declaration of Independence










