Fireside Chat- Revolutionary City: A Roundtable Discussion

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 7 PM ET

Virtual Event | Free

Now more than ever the American Revolution and its legacies loom large for the American public. What did the Revolution mean for the people who lived through it? What should it mean for us today and what lessons should we draw from its memory? How might engagement with primary sources from the American Revolution help us participate in civil dialogue, appreciate the diversity of the American experience, and celebrate the common bonds that hold citizens together? We are hosting a roundtable discussion with the creators of two related public history endeavors seeking to make primary source texts and artifacts of our revolutionary past easily accessible to the public.

The Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding is a website that provides a one-stop-shop for students, teachers, scholars, and lovers of history to learn about diverse stories of the American Revolution from the perspective of early residents of America’s revolutionary city. It makes available high-resolution images of historic documents from the American Philosophical Society (APS), the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), and the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) so that readers can explore for themselves how Americans approached and lived through the upheaval, peril, and promise of revolution.

Join us as we meet with representatives from the archives who contributed to the portal and the creator of the public exhibit to discuss the portal, the exhibit, and the ongoing effort to inform the memory of the American Revolution and its legacies today.

Sponsored by the Program in Early American Economy and Society