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The history behind our great nation is a tapestry of stories about people who lived through landmark events, challenging times and amazing innovations.
America250: A Journey Through Time is a special publication designed to remember, celebrate and honor those pieces of our past as we prepare to mark the nation’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
Each issue will include articles of national, state and county significance, profiles of people throughout the centuries and more.

The first 17 months will focus on slices of history and how events impacted the people who lived through those times. An added feature will show where readers can continue their own journeys through history at museums and historical attraction.
Starting in June 2024, America250: A Journey Through Time will examine the decades leading us back to the events that formed our nation. Data from the Census, which started in 1790, will assist in painting this portrait of America.

National Spotlight
Welcome to the 1950s, a decade of prosperity and Pontiacs, drive-ins and tail fins, bobby socks and poodle skirts. The decade saw a big swing from big bands to rock’n’rol...
January 14, 2025 America 250
Welcome to the 1960s, a decade of sit-ins and teach-ins, hemlines that were getting shorter and hair that was getting longer, and laid-back family road trips, leading onw...
December 10, 2024 America 250
Welcome to the 1970s, a strange mélange of grimy New York City streets, the hardscrabble blue-collar strength of union families in declining steel towns, and a countercul...
November 12, 2024 America 250
It all started without cell phones, minivans or Chicken McNuggets. But Americans would soon have all of these—along with CDs, shoulder pads and Friday nights at the local...
October 08, 2024 America 250
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Keystone Highlights
This year marks 70 years since the first polio vaccine was declared safe and effective, and more than 45 years since the disease was wiped out in the United States. A lar...
January 14, 2025 America 250
“You old Irishman, you, you did it!” Those were the words of legendary Pittsburgh Pirates radio announcer Bob Prince as he embraced manager Danny Murtaugh in the clubhous...
December 10, 2024 America 250
Despite what they said at the Dew Drop Inn, Nick Perry always maintained he’d had nothing to do with what would become known as the Triple Six Fix. Perry, a longtime Pitt...
October 08, 2024 America 250
An error in judgment during what should have been a routine flight in April 1991 took the lives of seven, including a senator at the height of his political career. Sen. ...
September 10, 2024 America 250
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County Times
After John Gillespie Sr. came to what is today Donegal Township in 1796, he built a simple cabin and returned to his previous residence to retrieve his few worldly posses...
January 14, 2025 America 250
Biochemical engineer Carey Reams was a long way from his Orange County, Fla. home on New Year’s Day, 1945. His World War II United States Army company had just been orde...
January 14, 2025 America 250
A casual observer might believe that Lancaster Township hasn’t changed much since its earliest European settlers arrive in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early ...
December 10, 2024 America 250
Paul Edward Angert is just one of 60 young men from the Butler area who sacrificed their lives during the war in southeast Asia. His name and those of 59 other heroes are...
December 10, 2024 America 250
Active-duty U.S. soldiers serving in Vietnam: 2.7 million Total number of draftees: 1.9 million Total U.S. military personnel: 9.1 million U.S. soldiers killed: 58,220 U....
December 10, 2024 America 250
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Profiles of People
Arnold Palmer served three years in the U.S. Coast Guard, but that didn’t stop him from creating an army later in life. Later in life, Palmer would say the first time he ...
January 14, 2025 America 250
It has been decades since Mister Rogers first looked into the camera and asked us to be his neighbor, but time has not diminished the impact of his legacy. Fred knew some...
December 10, 2024 America 250
He was such a good player that the Baseball Writers’ Association of America changed its Hall of Fame rules after his death, to make sure he got in, but Roberto Clemente’s...
November 12, 2024 America 250
She was supposed to be the first teacher to go into space, but instead she because part of one of NASA's worst tragedies. The breakup of the Challenger space shuttle in J...
October 08, 2024 America 250
Butler graduate Bill Hohn needed the confidence to make important calls during his time as a Major League Baseball umpire. The difference between right and wrong comes do...
September 10, 2024 America 250
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Experience History
USGA Golf Museum and Library Address: 77 Liberty Corner Road, Liberty Corner, N.J. Phone: 908-326-1908 Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m Tuesday through Sunday Of ...
January 14, 2025 America 250
Steelers Hall of Honor Museum Address: 100 Art Rooney Ave., Pittsburgh Phone: 412-697-7150 Open: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays Of Note: Loc...
November 12, 2024 America 250
Harmony Museum Address: 218 Mercer St., Harmony, Pa. Phone: 724-452-7341 Open: 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday Of Note: The museum, one o...
May 14, 2024 America 250
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Address: 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, N.Y. Phone: 800-337-8474 Open: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily ...
February 13, 2024 America 250
DeBence Antique Music World Address: 1261 Liberty St., Franklin, Pa. Phone: 814-432-8350 Open: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Tuesday through Saturday and 12:30 to 4 ...
January 09, 2024 America 250
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Where To Go
Gathered here are suggestions where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the museums’ websites. Heinz History Center Address: 1212 Small...
July 11, 2023 America 250
Gathered here are places where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the museums’ websites. Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Address...
May 09, 2023 America 250
Gathered here are suggestions where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the musuems’ websites Heinz History Center Address: 1212 Small...
April 11, 2023 America 250
Gathered here are suggestions where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the museums’ websites. Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum ...
March 14, 2023 America 250
Cruiser Olympia Address: Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia Phone: 215-413-8655 Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except...
February 14, 2023 America 250
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