Our Mission
Helping you touch history where it happened
as we were becoming America, 1769-1789.
Our Mission
Celebrating our hidden history
We created Becoming America 250 as a simple, online way to keep people informed about events they can attend and places they can visit to expand their understanding of the experiences of early Americans—especially in the southern colonies—just before and during the American Revolution and through our creating the U.S. Constitution.
250th anniversary
We are doing this year-by-year from 2019 through 2039 as a series of 250th anniversaries rolls through our lives for the two decades. All these anniversaries relate to our nation’s founding history during the formative years of 1769 to 1789. The story of America’s founding through the efforts of those who lived in the southern colonies is not well known by most, even many who live there now. We intend to help you give that history due consideration. We think you’ll be surprised. We know you’ll be pleased to know the stories that bring new understanding to how America became an independent nation and self-governing democratic republic,
e pluribus unum.
Entertaining learning
“Arm-chair” history is one way to experience the past through books, movies, videos, and online information. We wholeheartedly suggest adding another. We think traveling across the historical landscape, standing in the places where history happened, and interacting with informed interpreters wearing period clothing and carrying out life tasks while using the technologies and skills of the late 18th century add much to what one can learn and understand about how we became a new nation. The fact that it is often also entertaining is not lost on those who already visit historic sites, parks, museums., and historic trails. They know some experiences just make learning new things fun.
Let that history touch you
Bring the past to life. Bring our history to bear on our collective future, on your own tomorrows. Knowing where we’ve been tells us something about where we are and where we might want to go next together as a community, a society, a nation. We have for more than 250 years now been at the task of becoming America. Touch that history where it happened, and let that history touch you.