A rally at Seattle Central College attracted Seattle-area residents who said they didn't feel much like celebrating this Fourth of July.

Beneath the Space Needle, 501 immigrants from nearly 80 countries gathered to take the oath of allegiance, marking a personal milestone on a national holiday.

In Greater Boston, the Fourth of July includes a number of annual traditions: music at the Hatch Shell, the presentation of the Declaration of Independence, and the reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?