USA Day 250

🚨 BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to Honor America’s 250th Birthday During the 2026 White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 6, 2026 at 10:30 AM EST on the South Lawn of the White House. The White House Easter Egg Roll is a timeless White

Spotted this weekend: cherry blossoms in full bloom in DC. Spring in our nation’s capital never disappoints 🇺🇸🌸 📸: Scott Hagan

Good morning my friends and happy Monday to you!

Every spring, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,020 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo, Japan, to the city of Washington, D.C. This cherished tradition has deep historic ties to the White House and the nation’s first ladies, beginning

Today in American History: 1867 U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signed a treaty with Russia to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million (about two cents per acre). Initially ridiculed as a wasteful “icebox,” the deal proved valuable after the Klondike Gold Rush and for its vast natural resources. Today the estimated value of natural resources in Alaska is around $5 trillion in value.

30 March 1775, Boston, Massachusetts. General Thomas Gage ordered Brigadier General Lord Hugh Percy to lead roughly 1,200 troops of the First Brigade on a planned show of force. The column marched from Boston Common toward Cambridge through Roxbury and Brookline. Alerted

1776: We declared freedom. 250 years later, no nation comes close. 🇺🇸🦅

This is the marker at Valley Forge erected "In Memory of Unknown Soldiers Buried at Valley Forge." The bigger flag to the left is the one we bought at the Encampment Store and left to honor them. Photo May 2023.

30 March 1775. London. King George III granted royal assent to the New England Restraining Act (formally the New England Trade and Fisheries Act), a punitive measure introduced by Prime Minister Lord North amid escalating colonial unrest following the Boston Tea Party and

March 29, 1867: The U.S. Congress approved construction of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.