Two hundred and fifty years of American spirit
America is a promise passed from one generation to the next, built by people who believed in something bigger than themselves.
On our 250th birthday, we celebrate that idea. The music that moved us. The moments that defined us. The Americans who inspired us. And the spirit that has carried this country forward for two and a half centuries.
THE MUSIC OF AMERICA
From the first patriotic hymns of the revolution to the gospel that carried the civil rights movement, from the country roads and city stages to the jazz clubs and stadium floors, America has always found its voice in music.
For 250 years, the American soundtrack has grown richer and louder with every generation that has added its voice to the chorus.
AMERICAN HEROES
Every generation of Americans has produced the heroes it needed.
The soldiers who crossed the Delaware in the dead of winter. The women who built the planes and ships that won a world war. The first responders who ran toward the towers when everyone else was running away. The essential workers who showed up every single day when the world shut down.
On America’s 250th birthday, we honor all of them. The ones history remembers, and the ones who stood by us all in support of our great nation.
ONE GIANT LEAP
There are moments in American history that stop time. Where everyone remembers exactly where they were and what they felt.
More than five decades after a nation gathered around television sets, radios and public screens as the Apollo 11 crew set foot on the surface of the moon, NASA’s Artemis program is writing the next chapter of that story, returning humans to the moon and reaching toward Mars.
From 1776 to the moon and back – Americans continue to reach further than ever thought possible.
THE ATHLETES WHO INSPIRED US
Generation after generation, American athletes have stepped onto the world’s stage and shown us something bigger than competition. They have shown us who we are.
These are American moments. Today and every day we honor every athlete who carried the flag, wore the uniform, and proudly represented our great nation.
YOUR AMERICAN MOMENT
What Does America Mean to You?
We asked that question to veterans and Olympians, to artists and astronauts, to workers and Rosies and everyday Americans.
We asked it because at 250, America’s story is too big for any one voice to tell. It takes all of us.
Two hundred and fifty years is extraordinary. But it is not the end of the story. The next 250 years will be written by the scientists working in labs we haven’t built yet, on problems we haven’t named yet. By the artists who haven’t picked up their instruments yet. By the athletes who haven’t laced up their shoes. By the children watching fireworks tonight