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Julian Zelizer : We celebrate Independence Day on July 2 , not July 4 , the day independence was declared by the Second Continental Congress .
He says the only delegate to have signed the document on July 4 was John Hancock , the president of the Congress .
Zelizer says Americans celebrating Independence Day in a cacophony of ignorance of their own history.
Much of what we were taught as American history is a nationalistic fable, or as historian Richard Shenkman has accurately termed them, “legends, lies and cherished myths” The Fourth of July is not Independence Day , and yes, all Americans are doing it wrong by celebrating it on that day .
Michael J C Taylor is an author and historian with a doctorate in history and political science.
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