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 ...

America will turn 248 years old this Independence Day, with all the fanfare you ... Massachusetts was the first state to make Fourth of July a state holiday in 1781. That tradition began in ...

Test your knowledge of American History and the Fourth of July with CNN’s Independence Day Quiz. And be sure to watch CNN’s “The Fourth In America” special, featuring coast-to-coast ...