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SOLD OUT | Artisan Workshop: Make a Pinball
January 11, 18, 25, 2023 (3 weeks) from 7-8:30 p.m.Join us for this three-part virtual Artisan Workshop to learn about 18th-century fashion and how to make your own embroidered “pinball,” a spherical pincushion, based on original examples.
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History Explorer Meet-Up: Privateer Adventure
April 8, 2023 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.Join us for an interactive History Explorer Meet-Up to learn that life as a privateer, or legal pirate, was as much about luck as it was about skill.
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CANCELLED | Black Founders Exhibit Educator Deep-Dive
February 25, 2023 from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.Join Museum educators for an in-person workshop that pairs classroom instruction with exploration of our new special exhibit, Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia.
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Write the Revolution Young Author Workshop with Jean O'Connor
March 5, 2023 from 2-3:30 p.m.Join us for this drop-in writing activity with historical fiction novelist Jean C. O'Connor, author of The Remarkable Cause: A Novel of James Lovell and the Crucible of the Revolution, geared towards students ages 12-18.
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Makers of Revolutionary Philadelphia Living History Day
May 20, 2023Join several historical tradespeople at the Museum to do hands-on crafts and activities, see demonstrations of 18th-century skills and trades, and meet the people who made the Revolution in 1770s Philadelphia.
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SOLD OUT | AmRev Seminar: The American Revolution After 1783
March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2023 (5 weeks) from 7-8:30 p.m.In this interactive seminar, explore how the Revolutionary generation struggled in the years after the war ended to shape a new country through readings, virtual talks and tours, and class discussion.
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SOLD OUT | AmRev Seminar: The American Revolution After 1783
Feb. 28, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023 (5 weeks) from 7-8:30 p.m.In this newly added interactive seminar, explore how the Revolutionary generation struggled in the years after the war ended to shape a new country through readings, virtual talks and tours, and class discussion.
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SOLD OUT | Artisan Workshop: Make a Sampler
March 8, 15, 22, 2023 (3 weeks) from 7-8:30 p.m.Join us for this three-part virtual workshop to learn about 18th-century sewing and how to make your own embroidered sampler based on original examples on display in our special exhibit, Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia.
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First Oval Office Project at Mount Vernon's Revolutionary War Weekend
May 6-7, 2023 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.Join the Museum at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, outside Washington, D.C., for their Revolutionary War Weekend living history event where we will set up our First Oval Office Project tents.
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Read the Revolution Speaker Series with Julie Winch, Featuring Atwood "Kip" Forten Jacobs
April 12, 2023 from 6:30-8 p.m.Historian Dr. Julie Winch joins the Museum to reflect on her groundbreaking biography, A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten, and will be joined by Forten's great-great-great-great grandson, Atwood “Kip” Forten Jacobs.
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