Recently, I came across an interesting online exchange. A Facebook poster expressed puzzlement over the apparent lack of interest in America’s coming semiquincentennial in 2026. In response, a commenter wrote simply, “Waiting to see if we make it that far…”
The silence is odd, the poster argued, because the lead-up to America’s Bicentennial in 1976 generated endless hype and public interest, and not just for history buffs. The hoopla surrounding both the 1976 Bicentennial and the 1987 Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution was so intense that both events inspired in me an intense interest and curiosity about American history.
Yet it hadn’t even occurred to me until seeing that post that America’s 250th birthday is just around the corner. Naturally, my
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