What does the Fourth of July celebrate? Known now as a day of patriotism and enjoying time off from work, the Fourth of July began the journey to becoming a quintessential America

Quincy's John Adams did not get his way. The year before, on July 2, 1776, when the Continental Congress voted to officially separate from Great Britain he made a big prediction. John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come: “[Independence Day] will be the most memorable Epocha,