Fourth of July Encyclopedia
July 4, 2008 – 6:55 am
For the last 15 years, former American University librarian/historian James Heintze has dedicated himself to the study of Independence Day. He has spent countless hours pouring through books, microfilms, articles, rare documents, and even traveling to various locations to find out every detail about our nation’s birthday and how it has been celebrated through the years. Lucky for us, he’s chronicled all that information in one 360-page volume called The Fourth of July Encyclopedia.
Packed full of famous speeches, patriotic poems, and songs, as well as accounts of great social events that took place on the Fourth such as New York’s emancipation of slaves in 1827, the encyclopedia is sure to help bring a new perspective on what today’s holiday is really all about.
-JH
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