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What made Patrick Henry a voice that stirred a nation? Explore his fiery speeches and pivotal role in America's fight for independence. Listen now: https://benfranklinsworld.com/407
#FoundingFathers #LibertyOrDeath #HistoryPodcast #BFWorld #Virginia #Rev250 #Revolution250
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This is unacceptable #REV250 #SAILboston #HarborWalk
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Did Benjamin Franklin know everyone? How did he manage to be involved in so many events, campaigns etc and still have time to sleep?
He's just turned up *again* in my research, this time in the Ohio and Walpole Companies.
#C18th #Rev250 #Skystorians 🗃
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📜 Primary sources reveal America's story as it was experienced 250 years ago.
💡 In 2026, the Readex Blog will feature articles unlocking our digital archives to uncover the people and events of Revolutionary America: https://ow.ly/iiHP50Y3RSX
#America250 #Revolution250 #Rev250 #AmericanHistory
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The web article that accompanies our Piecework magazine article is available. We talk about our #Rev250 event last spring with the tale of the Revolutionary lacemakers.
#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Massachusetts250
pieceworkmagazine.com/lace-lives-o...
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Would you risk your life for an idea?
Dr. Joseph Warren did—at Bunker Hill, 250 years ago.
🎙️ In our new episode, we explore his life, ideals, and legacy.
👂 Listen: benfranklinsworld.com/413
💬 Would you have made the same choice?
#Rev250 #BenFranklinsWorld #History #USHistory
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Happy Birthday Benjamin Franklin 🎉
Ben Franklin, Founding Father, had wide-ranging intellectual interests. Dig into his political thinking before the Revolution: https://ow.ly/jP2b50XXs4r
#BenjaminFranklin #Revolution250 #Rev250
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![The cover of Piecework Magazine Spring 2026 issue. It has the big PieceWork title on the top.
Below that it says "Celebrate American Needlework".
Other side text says: "Hidden Stories of Revolutionary Lacemakers" and "Piecing Together the History of Seminole Patchwork".
It shows some spools of thread around, a white one and two red ones. A blue woven shawl lays diagonally across the background.
On the shawl a beige pillow sits. It's a needlepoint rectangular work with a small colonial salmon colored house on the left. One story with 2 small windows on each side of a center entrance door. Three small dormer windows are visible in the brown roof above.
It says to the right of the house:
"To be Good
and
To do Good"
1776 [needlepoint flag] 2026
A rose and vine embroidery is below the writing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hpjfbhsvrd4p3gufiw6wqsmd/bafkreiglunhydms34fw2fcbtkkciqhelofk2s2npja5ep7tfl5m7cecwge)
The cover of Piecework Magazine Spring 2026 issue. It has the big PieceWork title on the top. Below that it says "Celebrate American Needlework". Other side text says: "Hidden Stories of Revolutionary Lacemakers" and "Piecing Together the History of Seminole Patchwork". It shows some spools of thread around, a white one and two red ones. A blue woven shawl lays diagonally across the background. On the shawl a beige pillow sits. It's a needlepoint rectangular work with a small colonial salmon colored house on the left. One story with 2 small windows on each side of a center entrance door. Three small dormer windows are visible in the brown roof above. It says to the right of the house: "To be Good and To do Good" 1776 [needlepoint flag] 2026 A rose and vine embroidery is below the writing.
My blue Swedish lace pillow with my Ipswich lace in progress. It has dozens of wooden bobbins around the front, wrapped with black silk threads, with my lace in progress on the roller part of the pillow. You can see part of the pattern, and the rest is covered with the pins in the completed lace section. To the back is my completed yardage rolled around a little tiny holder. To the upper left is my decorated pin box with a colonial woman wearing a black shawl and a cyanotype of a sailing ship that was turned into a lace pricking. A banner on the front has the PieceWork cover I described in the other image, and it says "I'm in PieceWork".
I have an article coming out in the spring #Rev250 theme issue of PieceWork, about #IpswichLace + stories of women who made or used the lace.
Another article about #AbigailAdams has a needlepoint of her house + a phrase on it.
#ReneeNicoleGood Patriots--the real kind.
#BobbinLace #embroidery
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published #OTD in 1776. Do thoroughly studied revolutionary documents have more to tell us? Research revolutionary America with Readex text analysis tools. Read more on our blog: https://ow.ly/ekoY50XS7XQ
#Revolution250 #Rev250 #PrimarySources #DigitalHumanities
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Are you planning your 2026 travel yet? Our January #MuseumShopMonday posts will all help with that effort, starting with the #NationalParks Passport Book. Can you collect them all?? bit.ly/3NeJI7D #America250 #Rev250
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Before the Revolution, there was the Shawnee-Dunmore War. Discover how this 1774 conflict set the stage for America's fight for independence. Listen now: https://benfranklinsworld.com/398
#ShawneeWar#VastEarlyAmerica #BenFranklinsWorld #Virginia #Rev250 #IndigenousHistory #History #USHistory
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Laundry lines, invisible ink, and coded numbers—women’s work was never just domestic during the Revolution. From rumored spy signals to political influence, newspapers reveal how women shaped the war effort within everyday life. A reminder of why primary sources matter.
#Revolution250 #Rev250
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What made Patrick Henry a voice that stirred a nation? Explore his fiery speeches and pivotal role in America's fight for independence. Listen now: https://benfranklinsworld.com/407
#FoundingFathers #LibertyOrDeath #HistoryPodcast #BFWorld #Virginia #Rev250 #Revolution250
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🗓️ 250 years ago today, Dr. Joseph Warren died fighting at Bunker Hill.
Who was this physician-turned-patriot, and why did his death change the course of the American Revolution?
🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/413
#Rev250 #EarlyAmerica #BunkerHill
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Historic black and white illustration of Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge with snow-covered ground and leafless trees in winter.
General George Washington's army enters its winter quarters at Valley Forge #OTD in 1777.
Research the conditions endured by the Continental Army in American Pamphlets and other Early American Imprints collections: https://ow.ly/XApj50XL19r
#Revolution250 #Rev250 #MilitaryHistory
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Boosting for the daytime crowd. #Boston dumps stuff into the harbor again.
This time it's #ICE.
#Rev250
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"Hold yourselfs in Readiness..." The Boston Tea Party took place #OTD in 1773.
Students can study this day with primary sources from 1773 through the 20th century.
🔗 https://www.readex.com/products
#Revolution250 #Rev250 #AmericanRevolution #BostonTeaParty
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Tea wasn't just a drink; it was a symbol of resistance. Dive into the story of how tea boycotts fueled revolutionary fervor in America. Listen now: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/401
#TeaParty #AmericanRevolution #Boycotts #BenFranklinsWorld #Revolution250 #Rev250
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Great work James Bourdieu, Samuel Chollet, Captain Maitland & partners.
(Good thing for James Laurens that it didn't come out at the time that he still co-owned the ship. His brother Henry managed to sell his share in 1774)
#Rev250 #C18th
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Who could have predicted that the ship would be captured again, the supplies for the British army seized again and a private letter sent with the cargo, predicting the inevitability of American independence published?
founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
#Rev250 #C18th
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Then your next voyage in 1775 resulted in the ship being captured by the American rebels, who seize the 13,000 pounds of gunpowder &weapons on board.
Then you might realise that going back on a 3rd voyage in 1777 is unlikely to end well?
#Rev250 #C18th
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Some people really don't learn.
Your 1st voyage from London to America in 1774 results in the Captain narrowly avoiding being tarred &feathered & having to flee because he'd been stupid enough to bring a cargo of tea with him.
#Rev250 #C18th
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On this day 250 years ago, Henry Knox traveled from Poughkeepsie to Livingston Manor on his way north to Ticonderoga to gather captured artillery to assist with the siege of Boston. He seems to have taken time on this day to add info on his travels from November 20. #rev250
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On this day 250 years ago, Henry Knox, on his way from Massachusetts to Ticonderoga via NYC to bring captured artillery to the Continental Army to assist with the siege of Boston, wrote “glad to leave N York it being very expensive” in his diary. Some things don’t change! #rev250
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Ethan Allen: "...farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician..." https://ow.ly/KbhE50XtKxF
#AmericanRevolution #Revolution250 #Rev250 #18thCentury
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250 years ago today, Henry Knox began the diary he’d keep for much of the Ticonderoga expedition. It begins with:
Worcester Nov 20 1775
paid Miller
of worcester to leave
with his wife two
seven dollar one six
dollar Continential Bills
The diary is held by @mhs1791.bsky.social
#rev250 #ma250
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The only existing image of Lucy Flucker, young privileged daughter of Boston Tories, who ran off with Patriot bookseller-turned-artillery whiz Henry Knox.
If you squint your eyes, poor Lucy looks like a whisk broom.
From the Massachusetts Historical Society.
#history #SisterCentennial #Rev250
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