250 ANNIVERSARY Events for February 2026 – A BIG YEAR FOR AMERICA!
📅 Events and Commemorations in February 2026
🎙 February 7, 2026 — American 250 Lecture Series
A free in-person and livestreamed lecture at the Performing Arts Center in Brewster featuring historian Stephen McDowell. This is part of a year-long lecture series focused on key themes from America’s fight for independence.
📍 February 14, 2026 — Knox Trail 250: Framingham
Massachusetts’ tribute to Henry Knox’s legendary winter 1776 artillery journey includes a ceremonial event on Valentine’s Day at The Village Hall on the Framingham Green. This series continues a sequence of celebrations leading up to major spring commemorations.
📚 America 250 / Revolution! Exhibition (ongoing through early 2026)
While not limited to February, exhibitions like Revolution! 250 Years of Art and Activism at the Boston Public Library trace how Boston influenced American ideals and will be on view through April 2026.
📍 Boston National Historical Park Programs
Various commemorative programs from the National Park Service tie into the 250th anniversary with talks, historical interpretation, and explorations of sites linked to the Siege of Boston and the Revolution, with activities spread across the winter into spring.
Objects of Memory: Washington and Material Culture
Thu Feb 5th 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series taking place in-person and online.
Consider how Americans understand the material culture of Washington and the Revolution, including art and clothing, featuring:
Zara Anishanslin, author of The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution and Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware
Horace Ballard, author of Superfine: George Washington and the Free and Enslaved Men Who Dressed Him (forthcoming) and the Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums
250th Anniversary of Henry Knox & the Noble Train of Artillery
Sat Feb 28th 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Join Revolution 250, Boston Celebrations, and the citizens of the towns of Waltham, Weston, Watertown, Arlington & Cambridge for a commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the epic 1776 adventure of Henry Knox and his "Noble Train or Artillery" trekking across Massachusetts on their way to Boston.
The indoor commemorative program will begin at 2:00 p.m.