Idea #10 for celebrating America 250 is to read the June 1976 Ensign magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is dedicated to the Bicentennial of the USA. You can find it here in full color with all the illustrations. The text without illustrations is here.

It has many interesting articles including:

–“The False Gods We Worship” by a prophet, President Spencer W. Kimball, a classic!

–“Declaring Dependence: Teaching Patriotism in the Home”

-“Did Joseph Smith say that the Constitution would hang by a thread and that the elders would save it?“

–“Wise Men Raised Up” by Frank Fox (hey I recognize that name, he was a BYU professor who taught American Heritage) and LeGrand Baker

-“A Promised Land” by Jeffrey R. Holland

and so many more patriotic goodies!