Declaration of Independence, 4. juli 1776. Oil on canvas painted in 1819 by John Trumbull (1756–1843) depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The painting can be found on the back of the U.S. $2 bill. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda. Collection: United States Capitol. Source/Photographer: US Capitol. Public Domain. Se below 4 July 1776.
Declaration of Independence, 4. juli 1776. Oil on canvas painted in 1819 by John Trumbull (1756–1843) depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The painting can be found on the back of the U.S. $2 bill. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda. Collection: United States Capitol. Source/Photographer: US Capitol. Public Domain. Se below 4 July 1776. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Socialistisk Biblioteks Tidslinje med links til begivenheder og personer i 1776.

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29. januar 1776

Indfødsretten (statsborgerskab) proklameres.

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Camilla Broe (Wikipedia.org)
Engelsk artikel om første udleverede danske statsborger.

 

4. juli 1776

Den (nord-)Amerikanske Uafhængighedserklæring, Declaration of Independence, underskrives.

This is an image of the United States Declaration of Independence (article - text). This image is a version of the 1823 William Stone facsimile — Stone may well have used a wet pressing process (that removed ink from the original document onto a contact sheet for the purpose of making the engraving). Date: 4 July 1776 (ratification); 1776-07-02 (approval and signing). Author original: Second Continental Congress; reproduction: William Stone. Public Domain.
This is an image of the United States Declaration of Independence (article – text). This image is a version of the 1823 William Stone facsimile — Stone may well have used a wet pressing process (that removed ink from the original document onto a contact sheet for the purpose of making the engraving). Date: 4 July 1776 (ratification); 1776-07-02 (approval and signing). Author original: Second Continental Congress; reproduction: William Stone. Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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An interview with historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution (World Socialist Web Site, 3 August 2026). “Tom Mackaman spoke to Timothy H. Breen about the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.”

“It was universally understood as a revolution.” (World Socialist Web Site, 26 July 2026). “Tom Mackaman spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.”

Should we celebrate the American Revolution? By Hope Ryan (Socialist Worker, Issue 3012, 3 July 2026). “The uprising 250 years ago swept away feudal and aristocratic forms of rule—but the emerging new republic fell far short of the revolution’s most democratic aspirations.”

Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution: Is this all the BBC can offer on one of the most decisive events in world history? By Paul Mitchell (World Socialist Web Site, 12 June 2026). “Worsley’s narratives—whether on the Romanovs, the Peasants’ Revolt, or the English Civil War—consistently displace class antagonism, economic crisis, and mass political struggle, fixating on monarchs, courtiers, domestic interiors and historical cosplay.” With many links with critiques of The New York Times’ 1609 Projecect: “The New York Times’ 1619 Project (World Socialist Web Site). “[We have] published detailed refutations of the numerous falsifications contained in the Times project, and interviewed leading historians of the United States.”

Class struggle was a crucial part of the American Revolution. By Tom Cutterham (Jacobin, May 24, 2026). “The American Revolution was linked to a surge of working-class political activity on both sides of the Atlantic. The struggle against British rule unfolded in tandem with another struggle over who would dominate the post-independence US.”

A commentary on “The American Revolution” by Ken Burns et al. By Jennifer Jopp (Against the Current, Issue 242, May-June 2026). “”Ken Burns’ latest excavation of our heritage takes on this period in all its complexities and — while ultimately landing on the side of the revolutionaries — doesn’t shy away from peeling back the patriotic patina to reveal the rot underneath.” See also interview with Ken Burns: Ken Burns makes the case for the greatness of 1776 (Jacobin, May 8, 2026).

April 1776: When America opened its ports to the world. By Tom Mackaman (World Socialist Web Site, 16 April 2026). “As the Trump administration imposes a military closure of Iranian ports, it is notable that 250 years ago this month, on April 6, 1776, the Continental Congress announced that American ports would be open to world.”

The two American Revolutions in world history. By David North (World Socialist Web Site, 4 July 2020). “Today marks the 244th anniversary of the public proclamation of the Declaration of Independence, on July 4, 1776, which established the United States of America. It is not only the direct political impact of the document, but, rather, the principles it proclaimed that determined its world historical stature.”

Two hundred forty years since the Declaration of Independence. By Andre Damon (World Socialist Web Site, 4 July 2016). “The victory of the American Revolution provided the ideological and political impetus for the French Revolution and all subsequent democratic, egalitarian and socialist movements.” See also Tom Mackaman: A reply to our critics: In defense of the American Revolution (ibid., 14 July 2016)

The Fourth of July – Revolution and Counter-Revolution in America. By Dan La Botz (New Politics, Blog, July 4, 2017). “The founding fathers—mothers are never mentioned—were by and large wealthy businessmen, rich farmers, or the owners of plantations and slaves.”

Not our Independence Day (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 4 July 2016). Interview with William Hogeland: “The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.”

Slavery and the American Revolution. By Paul Prescod (Against the Current, Issue 178, September-October 2015). Review of Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (NYU Press, 2014, 363 p.). “The result is a book that will forever change the way you view the founding of the United States.”
See also review by Jay Moore: A history of a counter-revolution (MR Online, April 2, 2015) + review by Alan Gilbert (The International Marxist-Humanist, July 15, 2015) + Ross Wolfe: 1776 – revolution or counterrevolution?: Recent challenges to the classical narrative (The Charnel-House, July 2, 2014). See the book online at Libcom.
And the longer review article by Fred Schleger: Gerald Horne’s counter-revolution against 1776 (World Socialist Web Site, 17 March 2021). “Horne’s scholarship does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. Horne’s work is worse than inaccurate: it is, in large measure, a work of fiction. His interpretation of source material is so inaccurate as to be fanciful: quotes are truncated to invert their meaning, sources are misattributed, and even elementary facts are misrepresented—or are just plain wrong.”

America’s revolutionary founding document. By Tom Mackaman (World Socialist Web Site, 4 May 2013). Review of Alexander Tsesis, For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence (Oxford University Press, 2012). “Alexander Tsesis’ work deserves a broad audience.”

The Fourth of July, 2004: America’s revolution 228 years on. By Bill Van Auken (World Socialist Web Site, 3 July 2004). “Inevitably, the official holiday pronouncements will omit any serious consideration of what this day commemorates: a struggle for freedom that once inspired peoples throughout the world.”

What to the slave is the Fourth of July? (SocialistWorker.org, July 4, 2013). Speech by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852.
See also Frederick Douglass: The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (Danny Glover Reads Frederick Douglass; Zinn Education project)

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250 years: The United States – from independence to empire (Michael Roberts Blog, July 3, 2026). Part 1: The revolution + Part 2: From independence to empire (July 5) + Part 3: From hegemony to decline (July 7).

The shot heard round the world: 250 years since the battles of Lexington and Concord. By Tom Mackaman (World Socialist Web Site, April 18, 2025). “The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.”

The apocalypse of settler colonialism. By Gerald Horne (Monthly Review, Vol.69, No.11, April 2018). This article is adapted from Gerald Horne, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean (Monthly Review Press, 2018, 256 p.). See also: Gerald Horne on People’s Republic, talks to Brian Griffith about the 1776 Counter-Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 2018).

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