We were chatting at Breakfast and I mentioned the Articles of Confederation, I was not surprised my wife had never heard of it.
It gets short shrift in our "history" classes, in my experience. We celebrate the 4th, which is fine (even if many signed it earlier). But that document would have meant nothing without the Revolution being concluded. The Constitution is the seminal document, in my mind, that made us a "real country".
The French of course celebrate Bastille Day, which from my reading was a pretty insignificant and irrelevant event. Their national anthem sounds really good, but the words are bloodthirsty. Symbolism.