The leadership of America's Roundtable - Summit Leaders USA is honored to partner with Freedom 250 and joining citizens across the land in celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026.
In commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War, America’s Roundtable will host leading lights in reflecting on the Republic’s unique history and the ideas fueling American exceptionalism today.
America's Roundtable looks forward to presenting special commemorative educational materials which encapsulate the American founding and sharing inspiring stories which highlight a people's resilience in advancing freedom within its borders and beyond its shores.
As Americans gather to mark America's 250th anniversary, America's Roundtable, Summit Leaders USA and its strategic partners are creating and publishing "America: Our Story of Freedom," a historic, commemorative, and educational book, complemented by an online companion, covering the period from the American founding with the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 to the celebratory events on July 4, 2026.
This commemorative book is a collectible, intellectual artifact that includes the nation's founding documents, letters from America's revolutionary leaders and early statesmen, inspiring essays provided by historians and leaders in industry, arts and culture, medicine, and technology, all combined with historic paintings, classic photographs, and helpful maps. This book celebrates the enduring legacy of the nation’s first generation of leaders and captures the sacrifices, struggles, and triumphs of Americans over the nation’s 250-year history.
As an intellectual artifact and a “gift to the nation,” America: Our Story of Freedom chronologically narrates America’s history with inspiring stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, and leading figures from the fields of art, music and sports. Throughout the book, iconic images and photographs of the country’s stunning landscape will capture the beating heart of life in America.
The volume will feature essays written by respected historians, renowned authors, and leaders including Dr. Ben Carson; Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at Hoover Institution; Dr. Mark David Hall, Regent University; Chris Mitchell, CBN News; Wilfred M. McClay, Hillsdale College; U.S. Ambassador Peter Hoekstra; Chairman Mike Bost, House Veterans Affairs Committee and Tracy Bost, entrepreneur; Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, House Rules Committee; Keith Krach, CEO, Freedom 250; Mark Zietlow, Managing Partner, Innovative Law Group; Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy, co-founders, America's Roundtable, as well as leading members of Congress, state governors, and influential Americans from key fields and industries. This book also celebrates America’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and visionaries—individuals who have shaped the nation’s legacy—demonstrating how they were empowered by free enterprise and the foundational rule of law protecting life, liberty, and private property.
By honoring our nation’s most significant achievements, showcasing America’s historic writings, and inspiring the next generation of leaders, this project seeks to secure the legacy of American exceptionalism for generations to come. America: Our Story of Freedom is dedicated to communicating to future generations the vision of our Founding Fathers by recording the fundamental Judeo-Christian values and core American principles enshrined in our original governing documents.
"Through this commemorative book project, an intellectual artifact being created and published titled, "America: Our Story of Freedom," we will be reminded through profound essays that our Republic's founding documents remain just as relevant today as they were 250 years ago, said Natasha Srdoc, co-founder, America's Roundtable and International Leaders Summit. "Our Founding Fathers affirmed the rule of law and recognized that we are endowed by unalienable rights of our Creator. We have a responsibility to safeguard our sacred rights and freedoms for future generations and to endure as a beacon of liberty to the world. In doing so, we inspire others across the globe to pursue freedom for themselves."
Two editions: Hardcover edition and leather edition. For the leather edition concept, the American flag from the original painting will be reimagined into a rich foil embossing, creating an elegant iconic emblem. The burgundy/red leather gives the book a refined, timeless appearance, evoking the elegance and prestige of a classic leather-bound edition.
Essayists include Ambassador Peter Hoekstra, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson and Chairman Mike Bost, House Veterans Affairs Committee and Marine Veteran, and other prominent and principled leaders.
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Freedom 250 is a non-partisan organization that leads the delivery of presidential-level national events and initiatives for our nation’s 250th birthday. Working in partnership with the White House Task Force 250, federal agencies, and the America250 Commission, Freedom 250 serves as the national platform that connects, aligns, and amplifies national and local efforts.
Freedom 250 is the national, non-partisan organization leading the celebration of our Nation’s 250th birthday. Working together with the White House Task Force 250, federal agencies, and the Commission, Freedom 250 serves as the official public-private partnership that connects, aligns, and amplifies national and local efforts to deliver the defining presidential moments of this anniversary year.
At its heart, Freedom 250 is creating a movement of citizens, organizations, companies, and leaders from across the country to honor our Nation’s proud history, cherish our God-given freedoms, and build the Golden Age of Opportunity for the next 250 years.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
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Join America's Roundtable radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with the Honorable Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. M.D., one of America's principled leaders and a great patriot.
The program begins with the words — "the perilous fight" penned by Francis Scott Key in the midst of a most difficult and pivotal moment in our nation's history when twenty British ships bombarded Fort McHenry from the Baltimore Harbor. It was on the morning of September 14, 1814 that Francis Scott Key wrote about the ramparts, and the land of the free and the home of the brave which inspired a nation and became a rallying victory call.
Our conversation highlights Dr. Ben Carson's new book "The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture's War on the American Family."
“The perilous fight—those words arrest my attention whenever I place my right hand over my heart and face the flag at the playing of our national anthem. They are a reminder that America was born in a crucible of fire. Freedom was not given freely but had to be fought for and defended.” ~ Dr. Ben Carson
Biography | Dr. Ben Carson
In 1973, Ben Carson graduated from Yale University. He went on to receive his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School. At the age of 33, Dr. Carson became the chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, making him the youngest major division director in the hospital’s history.
This would be among an extensive list of outstanding firsts for Dr. Carson. Dr. Carson’s accomplishments have earned him a place in medical history. He performed the first and only successful separation of craniopagus (Siamese) twins joined at the back of the head in 1987.
He also performed the first fully successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins in 1997 in South Africa. In his career, Dr. Carson became a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and directed pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for over 29 years.
In 2016, Dr. Carson accepted the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump administration. After completing his tenure as the 17th Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2021, Dr. Carson founded the American Cornerstone Institute. This organization is focused on fighting for the principles that have guided him through life and that make this country great: faith, liberty, community and life.
Dr. Carson and his wife, Candy Carson, co-founded the Carson Scholars Fund, which recognizes young people of all backgrounds for exceptional academic and humanitarian accomplishments. The organization has awarded more than 11,000 scholarships and paid out more than $8.9 million in scholarships. The Carson Scholars Fund is currently operating in 50 states and the District of Columbia, and since its founding, has installed more than 270 Ben Carson Reading Rooms around the country.
In 2021, Dr. Carson founded the American Cornerstone Institute (ACI), a conservative think tank centered around advancing policies that promote “faith, liberty, community, and life.”
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” — Thomas Jefferson
President George Washington on Religious Liberty: "In fact, while President, Washington wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island standing in favor of religious freedom, explaining: "For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens…May the children of the stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the goodwill of the other inhabitants." — George Washington's Mount Vernon
Further reading:
The Constitution of the United States | The Bill of Rights