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 : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Hamilton, Alexander/ Madison, James/ Jay, John/ Beeman, Richard (EDT)
Audiobook
Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented...
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
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 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 : a new history of the invention of America
Rakove, Jack N. 1947-
Paper Book
"[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers" by a Pulitzer Prize-winner (The New Yorker). Revolutionaries makes us think afresh about how the country came to be, and why the idea of America endures. In the early 1770s, the men who invented America...
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 2023Los Angeles TimesBook Award in...

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