The Boston Bicentennial evolved around a complex arrangement of local and national events. As a whole, the bicentennial serves as a microcosm into the ways that America found its soul, amidst extreme strife, to be able to celebrate the 200th anniversary of its founding. The timeline below helps to visualise this process towards Boston's Bicentennial celebrations. With a few exceptions, the majority of these events were documented in the Boston Globe from 1963-1977. With the help of this timeline, I hope you can discover how a city transformed itself from cynicism to celebration.