Thursday, July 4, 2024

Independence Day - July 4, 2024


The Declaration of Independence
 – National Archives. 

Notes before Independence Day 2024 – Kathleen at The Course of Our Seasons.

 

Town Born! Turn Out! – New England’s Precedent of Independence – John Wilson at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

Celebrating Freedom – Martha Orlando at Meditations of My Heart.

 

The Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride – poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.


Freedom isn't free. Never forget - Bill Grandi at Living in the Shadow.

 

The New Colossus – poem by Emma Lazarus. 


The True Meaning of Freedom & How to Defend It - Dr. Art Lindsey at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.

 

I Hear America Singing – poem by Walt Whitman.


Thirteen Clocks Striking Together: The Forging of American Independence - Alison LaCroix at The Imaginative Conservative. 


Happy Fourth! – Brian Miller at A South Roane Agrarian on the Battle of King’s Mountain.

 

The Beautiful Send-Off: Jefferson and Adams’ Legendary Final 4th – Jason Clark at This is the Day.

 

“Old Ironsides,” poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Last Days of a Revolutionary – Hillsdale College.

 

Your Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate – A.J. Jacobs at The Free Press. 

 

Battle Hymn of the Republic – poem by Brian Yapko at Society of Classical Poets.

 

A Republic – If God Keeps It – David Mathis at Desiring God.

 

We Became American Because We Could – Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

Meet the American Who Wrote ‘America the Beautiful’ – Kerry Byrne at Fox News.

 

Explore the American Revolutionary War – History.com. 

 

Great Balls of Fire – Asher Gelzer-Govatos at Front Porch Republic.


The Star Spangled Banner - Sandi Patti and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (1986)



Painting: The signing of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas (1817)  by John Turnbull (1756-1843).

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