Embrace Boston is expanding its scope to tell a more complete story of the city’s history with 10 new monuments.

The Everyone250 campaign, which was launched in February and aims to broaden the lens as the city and the nation prepare to celebrate the country’s 250th anniversary in 2026, announced the additional monuments and markers Dec. 16, part of the group’s work to highlight diverse stories in Boston’s history.

“There is a lot of colonial history that commemorates the founding of our country, but not everyone’s founding, not every culture’s founding, started in 1776 or those stories weren’t able to be told during that time, and so we want to be able to recognize those stories,” said Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston and a co-chair of Everyone250.

The 10 new monuments on the expanded list are scattered across the city, from Roxbury to the South End, Jamaica Plain to downtown. Each will commemorate the site and have a QR code that visitors can scan to learn more about the history.

Paris Jeffries said he hopes the geographic range will bring new learning and economic benefits to neighborhoods all over Boston.

The history they celebrate is similarly diverse.

In the South End’s Puerto Rican hub of Villa Victoria, Plaza Betances will be home to one of the new markers. That site is a reminder of the community’s struggle against displacement in the 1960s. That fight led to the creation of the organization Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, a nonprofit community development corporation that supports community members in the Villa Victoria area.

“The plaza in particular is a point of community gatherings, a point of encounter, a point of culture, a point of activism,” said Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, CEO of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción. “It represents not only what that group of Puerto Rican activists fought for back in the ’60s, but it also represents what communities that oftentimes are under-invested, marginalized, oppressed and forgotten can do, and the power that they have.”

In Roxbury, two of the new monuments and markers sites will be installed in partnership with the Garrison-Trotter Neighborhood Association. Those sites will commemorate everything from the legacy of Black communities migrating from downtown Boston through the South End into Roxbury; the legacy of the Trotter Elementary School, the first magnet school in Boston, which was named after early Civil Rights advocate William Monroe Trotter; and the more recent history of longtime educator Alma Wright, who still works at the school.

“It should be a place where people can come and learn more about the neighborhood and what happened,” said Louis Elisa, president of the Garrison-Trotter Neighborhood Association. “What happened with the Trotter School, what happened [with] urban renewal, what happened to the homes that were there.”

At the heart of the Everyone250 campaign is what Paris Jeffries called “founding stories,” moments from Boston’s history that tell a broader history about what the past two-and-a-half centuries have meant in the city.

“America is a land of immigrants and every time a new group of immigrants comes to this country, their founding story begins,” Paris Jeffries said.

It’s a vision that Calderón-Rosado said she shares; at IBA and in the Villa Victoria community, she said Betances and the other Puerto Rican activists who fought to preserve the community are often referred to as the community’s “founding members.”

“It was their resilience, their strength, their power — community power — ambition, that really drew them into leading a movement and mobilizing to do something better for their community than what the city was proposing,” Calderón-Rosado said. “They had this vision and this dream, and they fought for it, and founded an organization that today is still an important institution in the city.”

That focus on “founding stories” helps make the history more human, Elisa said.

“I think it’s important to have something that’s a little bit more personal and direct, that’s not a part of the lore, but actually part of the practical, actual lives that people led,” he said.

Leaders and supporters of the campaign said that it’s important not just in the broader landscape of celebrating the semiquincentennial, but also in the specific political moment as the Trump administration works to limit how some historical facts — particularly around communities of color — are shared, while bolstering his own legacy.

Last March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service to remove “divisive narratives” and “ideological indoctrination” from their museums and sites. Those narratives and ideologies, as described in the order, center around race and diversity, as well as the transgender community.

The Trump administration has also cut funding for historical organizations focused on Black history, the Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket.

Meanwhile, Trump has been working to leave his own mark. For example, Parris Jeffries pointed to the administration’s recent decision by the board of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts to add the name Donald J. Trump to the facility, a move that was potentially unlawful.

“I could not have imagined, when our ragtag group of people put together Everyone250 and how there was this spirit of optimism when we wanted to do this, how Everyone250 would go from being a container of commemoration to a keeper of stories and a spirit of resistance,” Paris Jeffries said.

He called the present moment a “monument war.”

The announcement of Boston’s 10 new monuments and markers follows some initial steps taken by the campaign to begin addressing its broader vision of “founding stories.”

Earlier this year, the campaign helped commemorate the history of enslaved people at King’s Chapel in downtown Boston, a stop on the Freedom Trail, with a sculpture of a Black woman freeing birds from a cage.

The sculpture, titled “Unbound,” by the artist Harmonia Rosales was unveiled in September and honors the 219 people known to have been enslaved by past church members and ministers.

Embrace Boston and Everyone250 also helped lead an effort to install a monument to honor W. E. B. Du Bois in his western Massachusetts hometown of Great Barrington. That sculpture was installed and unveiled in August.

The Everyone250 campaign expects to announce a handful of other new monuments and markers to commemorate stories from the city’s history. The group is also preparing to coordinate a weekend full of events commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy in Boston, over MLK Day Weekend in January.

The “MLK Boston Beloved Community Weekend” will highlight events ranging from musical performances to rallies to volunteer opportunities from Friday, Jan. 16, through the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, Jan. 19.

“Participate in any way you want to celebrate the King holiday, but by God, celebrate something,” Paris Jeffries said. “I think that gives me hope that we could have retreated, and we didn’t, and we’re not going to.”