Brown 2026
Brown 2026
Brown University is observing the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States through “Brown 2026,” a campus-wide initiative to demonstrate the important role of research and teaching universities in fostering open and democratic societies.
Brown 2026 brings together and highlights work across Brown’s community that challenges us to confront and engage with divergent perspectives and important issues that face democracies today. Through free inquiry and research, the initiative also aims to expand knowledge about the complex values and events that led to the establishment of our nation, and the many legacies of the American Revolution.
From its beginnings, Brown's mission has been linked to the advancement of a democratic society through its commitments to freedom of expression and freedom of academic inquiry, thoughtful debate and deliberation, diversity of thought, and respect for the equality of all people in an open society.
Research and Teaching
Brown 2026 draws on Brown’s strength as a rigorous, multidisciplinary research institution and as a community of learning that seeks to confront important questions that have faced democracies in the past and that will continue to face them in the future.
Brown has a long-standing commitment to open inquiry, a demonstrated willingness to engage in discussions of complex and contested issues, and a record of frank reckoning with history, which uniquely positions us among universities nationally to lead and model informed, nuanced discussion of the history and significance of the American Revolution and its legacies.