America's 250th Anniversary

🎆 July 4, 2026, marks 250 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence 📜

Celebrate the Semiquincentennial with these books! 🗽

Updated June 4, 2026
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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The American story : conversations with master historians
Rubenstein, David M.
Paper Book
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American...
The words that made us : America's constitutional conversation, 1760-1840
Amar, Akhil Reed
Paper Book
From a preeminent legal scholar, a "fascinating" and "masterful" (Wall Street Journal) history of the American Constitution's formative decades   When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of...
Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy
Philbrick, Nathaniel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick--a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement." --The Boston Globe   Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for...

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