Month: June 2026

The American Freedom Train Engine from 1976, part of a historic nationwide tour celebrating the United States Bicentennial, showcasing American history.

America’s Birthdays: Past and Present

June 17, 2026 btwadmin 0

Have you ever celebrated a “milestone” birthday: a birthday that had special importance or significance? July 4, 2026, marks the United States’s semiquincentennial–the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. This “milestone” birthday will […]

a black, green, yellow, and red Juneteenth Freedom Day graphic

History of Juneteenth

June 15, 2026 btwadmin 0

President Abraham Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. Following the Union army’s success at […]