Each year on the fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event. Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies ...

In the United States, July 4th marks a unique day filled with joyous Independence Day festivities ... live music, vintage games, pie-eating contest and pony and wagon rides. The theme of this ...

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other on July 4, 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was 83 and Adams was 90.

click image for close-up Over a period of a decade, artist John Lewis Krimmel painted a number of scenes that chronicled the changing composition of Philadelphia's Independence Day celebrants.