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As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Hoover Institution is marking this milestone with a year-long exploration of the ideas, institutions, and civic traditions that have sustained American freedom. Through lectures, conversations, archival storytelling, student engagement, and public events, Hoover’s USA@250 programming reflects on the nation’s founding principles while examining how they must be renewed for the future.

Founders & Fellows
Founders & Fellows

As part of Hoover’s commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary, the Founders & Fellows series invites Hoover scholars to engage directly with the ideas, leaders, and debates that shaped the American experiment. Through a collection of essays published on Hoover’s Freedom Frequency platform, Fellows explore the enduring relevance of the Founding Era and examine how the principles that animated the nation’s creation continue to inform contemporary policy challenges.

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Featured Speaker Series: Ideas That Made U.S. | Dialogues on Freedom
Ideas That Made U.S. | Dialogues on Freedom

We invite you to attend The Ideas That Made U.S.: Dialogues on Freedom, a series of talks at Hoover throughout the year that explore the ideas and institutions that have shaped American freedom and the choices that will define its future. Through conversations on citizenship, national security, innovation, education, and global competition, the series examines how a free society can endure and thrive in a rapidly changing world.

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Only in America: Innovators on Freedom, Risk, and the American Idea
Only in America

Hosted by Director Condoleezza Rice, Only in America is a new documentary interview series featuring some of the nation’s most accomplished innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, and business leaders. Through deeply personal conversations, guests reflect on the role that freedom, opportunity, risk-taking, and American institutions played in their journeys.

The series asks a simple but profound question: Could your success have happened anywhere else?

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Ideas in Motion | A Creator Competition on The Spirit of ’76
Ideas in Motion | A Creator Competition on The Spirit of ’76

Attention content creators!

In 1776, the American Founders advanced radical claims about human freedom and proposed self-government. Telling the story of American freedom in a way that only you can, you are invited to explore the “Spirit of 1776” as expressed by the Founders. How should that spirit inspire and guide us today? Who or what embodies that spirit now?

In your video, interpret, challenge, or reimagine the ideals of the American founding in line with your creative direction. 

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Featured: The American Story | One Image at a Time

Drawn from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, these images capture moments, symbols, and stories that illuminate the meaning of freedom in American life. Shared as part of Stars, Stripes, & Stories, they offer a visual journey through the people, principles, and experiences that have shaped the nation. Follow the Hoover Institution on social media to see a new image from the collection shared each day as we count toward America’s 250th anniversary.

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