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It was the German statesman Otto von Bismarck who said that “Laws are like sausages — it is better not to see them being made.” However, the process by which the Second Continental Congress ground out ...

Author’s Note: During my tenure as the first Supreme Court Archivist-Legal Historian to the Supreme Court of Missouri, I authored an in-house history column. Reproduced below is my July Fourth column ...

Why Americans feast on the Fourth When the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain in 1776, John Adams wrote in a letter, “I am apt to believe that Independence Day will be ...

Back in 1776, John Adams one-upped Nostradamus with this prediction concerning the Fourth of July: “The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it ...

Gisela Adisa doesn’t necessarily enjoy audience discomfort. But in the actress’s mind, it tends to be a sign that theatergoers are about to learn something. So when patrons settle in to watch the ...

My mother had a vivid childhood memory of a July 4 in the early 1920s. Her father had given her a wondrous collection of little firecrackers — novelty creations that were even used indoors as parlor ...