We are once again nominated for Best History Museum in this year's @USATODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards! Will you help us be recognized for our engaging approach to public history in this anniversary year for our nation? 🇺🇸
Vote daily through Feb. 9: https://t.co/5ZEnCCAAAC
Raise a quaich to #StAndrewsDay!
A quaich is a shallow, two-handled drinking vessel. This quaich in our collection descended from Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and member of the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia.
🏴: https://t.co/oPdX2Pe2vZ
This week on #LeadershipMattersSXM, I was joined by @AmRevMuseum CEO @Scott_History to discuss leadership & the global legacy of the Declaration of Independence. This episode will play throughout the next week on @SIRIUSXM Business Radio (Ch. 132). https://t.co/nEjfy9jSYL
We're excited to join our friends @MountVernon for their Revolutionary War Weekend May 3-4, where we will set up our recreated Revolutionary War encampment, including handsewn, full-scale replicas of General George Washington's mobile headquarters.
⛺️: https://t.co/8LbQVk8MDA
Wave hello to spring over Spring Break at the Museum!
🇺🇸 Banners of Liberty exhibit opening
🖍️ Design your own flag craft
⚓ True Colours flag display
🧵 Flagmaker Rebecca Flower Young discovery cart
April 12-27: https://t.co/tl9LTk9TB3
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
#OnThisDay in 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech. In our collection, we have five 18th-century English law books listed in Henry’s estate inventory: https://t.co/CNPdjLc0Tp
#OnThisDay in 1818, the War Pension Act was signed to address care for veterans 35 years after the Revolutionary War. More than 80,000 veterans applied for pensions.
📽️ Watch three living veterans read the military pensions of Revolutionary War soldiers: https://t.co/MUV1U9NWDM
Inspired by the Philly trash reclaimed as treasures during an archaeological dig on the site of the Museum in 2014, join us after hours on Friday, March 28, for a featured "trash talk" with @mormolyke & @leviathant, special exhibit access, and more.
🗑️: https://t.co/OJW3YW8dHu
The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense