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
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The American story : conversations with master historians
Rubenstein, David M.
Paper Book
Cofounder of The Carlyle Group, patriotic philanthropist, and bestselling author of The American Experiment 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 truths : a history of the United States
Lepore, Jill 1966-
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and...
The soul of America : the battle for our better angels
Meacham, Jon
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. "Gripping and inspiring, The Soul 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...
Revolutionaries : inventing an American nation
Rakove, Jack N.
Paper Book
In this remarkable book, Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating insights- Washington as a flawed tactician but expert manager; Jack Laurens as a slave trader's son who developed a plan to...
The British are coming : the war for America, 1775-1777
Atkinson, Rick
Paper Book
'To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing ... A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America's] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.' New York Times ...
The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
Blackhawk, Ned
Paper Book
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2023 Los...

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