Hey everyone, Jody here. Welcome to Sunday, our Sunday edition, and we like to call it

some Sunday context. As you know, all this year, we are marking America's 250th birthday with our

series 50 Weeks that shaped America, original two-part episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then

here on Sundays, we're going to

mix it up a little bit. Some weeks will be bringing you original conversations about what's

happening here in 26, a lot of those with some of our friends of show and special guests.

And some weeks we'll be pulling episodes from the archives that build on what we did in that

previous week's series. So this week, as you may have heard,

we launched with a look at the planning and execution of America's last big birthday, the bicentennial

in 1976. And today I thought I'd run a little bit of a special we did about how this year's

birthday in 2026 is coming together. In particular, how the Trump administration is taking

the reins on the whole America 250 planning and how that reflects their idea of American history

and how American history should be taught. Now, a quick reminder that if you want the full

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