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• How New York City Is Anchoring the Nation's 250th Birthday Celebration This Fall

  From a tall ships parade in New York Harbor to a free concert on the Great Lawn, the city is mounting a months-long program that aims to be inclusive, international, and honest about American history.

  America 250 · Sarah Chen · August 16, 2026

• America's Greatest Artifacts Unite in a Traveling Exhibition Marking the Nation's 250th Birthday

  For the first time since 1952, the original Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are traveling beyond Washington, D.C. — stopping first in Philadelphia, then arriving in New York on September 15.

  America 250 · Siyu Xiang · July 29, 2026

• America Turns 250: New York Harbor Lights Up in the Most Spectacular July 4th Since the Bicentennial

  From the Statue of Liberty to the Brooklyn Bridge, a 25-minute fireworks display visible from all five boroughs marked the nation's semiquincentennial — a harbor celebration 250 years in the making.

  America 250 · Siyu Xiang · July 5, 2026

• If We Always Look Back

  On America's 250th anniversary, one Chinese American family's story shows how a nation is built not only by leaders and monuments, but by people who were rarely written into history at all.

  America 250 · Renee Yu · July 4, 2026