Celebrating the birth of the United States

Celebrating the birth of the United States

The annual Muscatine Independence Day parade took place Friday, July 4, in the downtown area.

TOMORROW: Profs and Pints–America’s Birth Certificate

It’s easy to get so caught up in the fun and fireworks of our nation’s Independence Day celebration that we lose sight of the remarkable event it commemorates, the July 4th, 1776, adoption of the Declaration of Independence.  That profound document, so radical in its conception and content that its signatories risked execution for treason, would upend the political order not just here but, eventually, around the world, serving as a model for cha…