For this holiday weekend, I thought I’d share a series of great articles from About.com on the Fourth of July by Beverly Hernandez. Here’s the first, which focuses on general history of the holiday:
>>The History And Origin Of Independence Day
By the middle of the 1700s, the 13 colonies that made up part of England’s empire in the New World were finding it difficult to be ruled by a king 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. They were tired of the taxes imposed upon them. But independence was a gradual and painful process. The colonists could not forget that they were British citizens and that they owed allegiance to King George III.