In case you were wondering, we’re doing a lot of history posts today. After all, today we celebrate one of (if not) the most important days in the history of the world’s greatest nation.
Brian Schoeneman of Bearing Drift has some interesting historical accuracies to ruin our concept of “Independence Day”. It doesn’t matter. No one at SBYnews is arguing that we should cover up the facts just to tell a good story:
It was oppressively hot that 4th of July 1776, when the Founding Fathers gathered in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. The titans of the day, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Hancock, Sam Adams, Benjamin Franklin and the two dozen other leading founders finally voted unanimously to sever all ties with Great Britain, one by one filing up to sign the Declaration of Independence, written with divine inspiration by Jefferson himself. Bells rang, people rejoiced in the streets and the American republic was proclaimed.
Not exactly.
Most of what we Americans “know” about the Fourth of July is wrong.
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