Nation Jun 29 America 250 brings extraordinary security challenge to Washington By Gary Fields, Associated Press
Nation Jun 27 At the Great American State Fair, you can find a dinosaur's rib cage. Unity is another matter The fair kicked off this week and is a run by Freedom 250, an organization created by President Donald Trump to run his administration's official events. By Gary Fields, Associated Press
Arts Jun 25 Watch 5:42 America's oldest hospital preserves the nation's history of medicine and health care There's a new museum in Philadelphia, but its building and mission date back to before this country was founded. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown went to see how the past and present meet at the Pennsylvania Hospital Museum. It's part… By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Arts Jun 24 Watch 7:15 Walter Isaacson on what he calls 'The Greatest Sentence Ever Written' Ahead of America's 250th anniversary, author Walter Isaacson has turned his attention to a single sentence in the Declaration of Independence. Judy Woodruff spoke with Isaacson about the enduring power of those words and his new book, "The Greatest Sentence… By Judy Woodruff, Lorna Baldwin
Politics Jun 24 WATCH: Congress dedicates national time capsule ahead of America's 250th anniversary The Time Capsule Act, a 2016 law creating the nonpartisan America250 commission mandated that a time capsule be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026, and dug up 250 years later in 2276. By Associated Press
Jun 24 Stealth bomber flyovers, military bands and a presidential speech: Trump turns America 250 kickoff into a campaign-style rally By Josh Boak, Associated Press The rally is designed to kick off weeks of celebrations about the founding of America, but critics say he's turning it into a partisan event to try to boost his ratings — and those of his party — ahead of… Continue reading
Jun 22 3 things I've learned talking with Americans about the country's 250th birthday By Judy Woodruff PBS News' Judy Woodruff set out to talk to a cross-section of people across the country to understand what it means to be an American at the two-and-a-half-century mark. Continue reading
Jun 19 Comparing the mood of America's 250th anniversary with its 200th in 1976 By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, a look back five decades to 1976 — the year of the nation’s bicentennial — reveals notable similarities with today. Continue reading
Jun 17 How Americans are marking the country's big 2-5-0 By Joshua Barajas For some, it's a weighty milestone that stirs greater reflection about the ways the nation could learn from its past. Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch 6:56 New book explores America's history of celebrating freedom while excluding millions By Geoff Bennett, Jonah Anderson The United States is preparing to mark 250 years since its founding, a milestone often framed as a celebration of democracy, freedom and national promise. But Eddie Glaude Jr. argues that America’s anniversaries have always been shadowed by a deeper… Continue watching