Year 1776

Year 1776: The Birth of American In the summer of 1776, men sat in Philadelphia, breath shallow with anticipation, phrases measured with the weight of history.  Outside, the streets reverberated with the rhythms of daily colonial life-blacksmiths banging, merchants yelling, the irregular clopping of horses' hooves on cobblestones-but inside the Pennsylvania State House, something remarkable was happening.  A tenuous coalition of farmers, lawyers and merchants, hailing from far-flung co