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Independence Day is the national holiday most dear to the hearts of the American people. It commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776. On the fourth of each July this great event is celebrated throughout the Union with patriotic exercises of varied nature and noisy demonstrations, in which firecrackers and other explosives have a prominent part.
- Search the Index for President's Day Artifacts
- 4rth of July Coloring Pages at Crayon Palace: American Patriot Coloring Pages
- The Great American Holiday
- The Nation's Birthday by Mary E. Vandyne
- How The Fourth of July Should Be Celebrated by Julia Ward Howe
- England and America by James Bryce
- The Birthday of the Nation by Daniel Webster
- The Fourth of July by Charles Leonard Moore
- Lift Up Your Hearts
- England and the Fourth of July by W. T. Stead
- Address of Joel Barlow, 1787
- Address of John Quincy Adams, 1793
- Address of John Lathrop, 1796, Extract
- The Fourth of July by Charles Sprague
- Our National Anniversary by H. Rice
- America's Natal Day by James Gillespie Blaine
- Crises of Nations by Dr. Foss
- The Fourth of July in Westminster Abbey by Phillips Brooks
- Patriot Sons by Samuel F. Smith
- The Flag Day Poem by Lydia Coonley Ward
- America Resents British Dictation by Henry B. Carrington
- Speech of James Otis
- Independence a Solemn Duty
- An Appeal for America by William Pitt
- Conciliation or War
- "War is Actually Begun" by Patrick Henry
- Emancipation from British Dependence by Philip Freneau
- True Heroism
- The Origin of the Declaration by Sydney George Fisher
- The Declaration of Independence by John D. Long
- The Signing of the Declaration by George Lippard
- Supposed Speech of John Adams by Daniel Webster
- The Liberty Bell by J T. Headley
- Independence Bell, Philadelphia
- The Declaration of Independence
- Independence Explained by Samuel Adams
- The Dignity of Our Nation's Founders by William T, Evarts
- The Character of the Declaration of Independence by George Bancroft
- The Declaration of Independence by Henry T. Randall
- The Declaration of Independence by John Quincy Adams
- The Declaration of Independence by Tudor Jenks
- The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticism by Moses Coit Tyler
- The Principles of the Revolution
- The Song of the Cannon by Sam Walter Foss
- Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A Song for Lexington by Robert Kelly Weeks
- The Revolutionary Alarm by George Bancroft
- The Volunteer by Eldridge Jefferson Cutler
- Ticonderoga by V, B. Wilson
- Warren's Address by John Pierpont
- "The Lonely Bugle Grieves" by Grenville Mellen
- The Battle of Bunker Hill
- The Maryland Battalion by John Williamson Palmer
- The Battle of Trenton
- Columbia by Timothy Dwight
- The Fighting Parson by Henry Ames Blood
- The Saratoga Lesson by George William Curtis
- The Surrender of Burgoyne by James Watts De Peyster
- The Saratoga Monument Begun by Horatio Seymour
- Molly Maguire at Monmouth by William Collins
- The South in the Revolution by Robert Young Hayne
- The Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant
- Our Country Saved by James Russell Lowell
- New England and Virginia by Robert Charles Winthrop
- America by S, F. Smith
- The Republic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Antiquity of Freedom by William Cullen Bryant
- America by William Cullen Bryant
- Ode by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- America First
- Liberty for All by William Lloyd Garrison
- Hymn
- The Dawning Future by William Preston Johnson
- Liberty
- Freedom
- A Rhapsody by Cassius Marcellus Clay
- Columbia by Frederick Lawrence Knowles
- A Renaissance of Patriotism by George I, Manson
- Centennial Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Welcome to the Nation by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Liberty's Latest Daughter by Bayard Tayhir
- "Scum of the Earth" by Robert Haven Schauffler
- Liberty and Union One and Inseparable by Daniel Webster
- Address to Liberty by William Cowper
- The Torch of Liberty by Thomas Moore
- Horologue of Liberty
- The American Republic by George Bancroft
- A New National Hymn by Francis Marion Crawford
- "Dear Old Uncle Sam"
- Under The Washington Elm, Cambridge
- Jim's Aunt Frances by Bent Dillingham
- Our Barbarous Fourth by Mrs, Isaac L. Rice
- A Safe and Sane Fourth of July by Henry Litchdeld West
- The New Independence Day by Henry B. F. MacFarland and Richard B. Waltrous
- New Fourths for Old by Mrs. Isaac L. Rice
- Americanizing the Fourth by Robert Haven Schauffler
- The Fourth of July by Aunt Fanny
- His Wish
- The Feathered Patriot
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