John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

This year, Independence Day coincided with another historic birthday: Quincy’s. It has been 400 years since English colonists ...

He wrote to Abigail that "the second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America." The ...

John Adams was a visionary. Who’d have thought — all these years later — that the fledgling nation he helped create would still be going strong and shining bright as the fireworks that will be ...