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 Federalist papers
Madison, James
Paper Book
Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful, but their influence also transcended...
The Constitution explained : a guide for every American
Hudson, David L.
Ebook
Capture the flag : the stars and stripes in American history
Testi, Arnaldo.
Paper Book
You see it everywhere: on bumper stickers, tee shirts, lapel pins, in shop windows, and in front of nearly every school or government building. Yet while the American flag is ubiquitous, as a symbol it is both heavily freighted and misunderstood. Now an acclaimed European professor of...
These truths : a history of the United States
Lepore, Jill 1966-
Paper Book
Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the...
The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
Blackhawk, Ned
Ebook
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 2023Los Angeles TimesBook Award in...

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