The 4th of July or Independence Day Index

A young American from the turn
of the 20th Century.

       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.

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The Celebration of American Independence:

1. The Great American Holiday
2. The Nation's Birthday by Mary E. Vandyne  
3. How The Fourth of July Should Be Celebrated by Julia Ward Howe 

The Spirit and Significance of July 4th:

1. England and America by James Bryce 
2. The Birthday of the Nation by Daniel Webster
3. The Fourth of July by Charles Leonard Moore
4. Lift Up Your Hearts
5. England and the Fourth of July by W. T. Stead 
6. Address of Joel Barlow, 1787
   
7. Address of John Quincy Adams, 1793
8. Address of John Lathrop, 1796, Extract
   
9. The Fourth of July by Charles Sprague
10. Our National Anniversary by H. Rice
11. America's Natal Day by James Gillespie Blaine
12. Crises of Nations by Dr. Foss
13. The Fourth of July in Westminster Abbey by Phillips Brooks
14. Patriot Sons by Samuel F. Smith 
15. The Flag Day Poem by Lydia Coonley Ward
    

Before The Dawn of Independence:

1. America Resents British Dictation by Henry B. Carrington
2. Speech of James Otis 
3. Independence a Solemn Duty 
4. An Appeal for America by William Pitt 
5. Conciliation or War
6. "War is Actually Begun" by Patrick Henry 
7. Emancipation from British Dependence by Philip Freneau 
8. True Heroism 
   

The Declaration of Independence:

1. The Origin of the Declaration by Sydney George Fisher 
2. The Declaration of Independence by John D. Long
3. The Signing of the Declaration by George Lippard 
4. Supposed Speech of John Adams by Daniel Webster 
5. The Liberty Bell by J T. Headley
6. Independence Bell, Philadelphia
7. The Declaration of Independence
8. Independence Explained by Samuel Adams
9. The Dignity of Our Nation's Founders by William T, Evarts
10. The Character of the Declaration of Independence by George Bancroft 
11. The Declaration of Independence by Henry T. Randall 
12. The Declaration of Independence by John Quincy Adams 
13. The Declaration of Independence by Tudor Jenks 
14. The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticism by Moses Coit Tyler

The Struggle for Independence:

1. The Principles of the Revolution
2. The Song of the Cannon by Sam Walter Foss
3. Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
4. Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. A Song for Lexington by Robert Kelly Weeks 
6. The Revolutionary Alarm by George Bancroft 
7. The Volunteer by Eldridge Jefferson Cutler 
8. Ticonderoga by V, B. Wilson 
9. Warren's Address by John Pierpont 
10. "The Lonely Bugle Grieves" by Grenville Mellen
11. The Battle of Bunker Hill
12. The Maryland Battalion by John Williamson Palmer
13. The Battle of Trenton
14. Columbia  by Timothy Dwight
15. The Fighting Parson by Henry Ames Blood 
16. The Saratoga Lesson by George William Curtis 
17. The Surrender of Burgoyne by James Watts De Peyster 
18. The Saratoga Monument Begun by Horatio Seymour 
19. Molly Maguire at Monmouth by William Collins 
20. The South in the Revolution by Robert Young Hayne 
21. The Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant 
22. Our Country Saved by James Russell Lowell 
23. New England and Virginia by Robert Charles Winthrop

Sweet Land of Liberty:

1. America by S, F. Smith
2. The Republic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. The Antiquity of Freedom by William Cullen Bryant
4. America by William Cullen Bryant
5. Ode by Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. America First 
7. Liberty for All by William Lloyd Garrison 
8. Hymn
9. The Dawning Future by William Preston Johnson
10. Liberty
11. Freedom
12. A Rhapsody by Cassius Marcellus Clay
13. Columbia by Frederick Lawrence Knowles 
14. A Renaissance of Patriotism by George I, Manson
15. Centennial Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier
16. Welcome to the Nation by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
17. Liberty's Latest Daughter by Bayard Tayhir
18. "Scum of the Earth" by Robert Haven Schauffler
19. Liberty and Union One and Inseparable by Daniel Webster
20. Address to Liberty by William Cowper 
21. The Torch of Liberty by Thomas Moore 
22. Horologue of Liberty 
23. The American Republic by George Bancroft 
24. A New National Hymn by Francis Marion Crawford  
25. "Dear Old Uncle Sam"  
26. Under The Washington Elm, Cambridge

Fictional Stories:

• Jim's Aunt Frances by Bent Dillingham

The New Fourth of July:

1. Our Barbarous Fourth by Mrs, Isaac L. Rice
2. A Safe and Sane Fourth of July by Henry Litchdeld West 
3. The New Independence Day by Henry B. F. MacFarland and Richard B. Waltrous
4. New Fourths for Old by Mrs. Isaac L. Rice
5. Americanizing the Fourth by Robert Haven Schauffler 
6. The Fourth of July by Aunt Fanny 
7. His Wish
   
8. The Feathered Patriot

Patriotic Puzzles for Kids:

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