From BBC Studios and SiriusXM’s “99% Invisible. America's 250th birthday calls for a history as sprawling and contradictory as the country itself. A History of the United States in 100 Objects tells that history one thing at a time. A gold coin from an 1857 shipwreck that triggered a financial panic. An antebellum schoolbook that became an instrument of Black liberation. Each week, an object opens the door into an extraordinary, often shocking story — about who we've been, what we've built, and what we've allowed ourselves to forget. The series brings together some of the most respected voices in narrative storytelling, including Radiolab co-creator Jad Abumrad and co-host Latif Nasser and Dan Taberski, investigative journalist and host of Hysterical and Missing Richard Simmons, with additional contributors to be announced.