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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America's 250th Anniversary

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

Celebrate the Semiquincentennial with these books! 🗽

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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...
These truths : a history of the United States
Lepore, Jill 1966-
Paper Book
Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America 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--...
Revolutionaries : a new history of the invention of America
Rakove, Jack N. 1947-
Paper Book
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary" by ambition, but when events in Boston...
The British Are Coming : The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Atkinson, Rick.
Paper Book
Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling...
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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