Scott Stephenson

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: 10best.usatoday.com/qr/55714/

@JRakove @JRakove: excellent take!

My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/wha…

@SalinaBBaker @AmRevMuseum Time to visit!

@Scott_History @AmRevMuseum We were there in April 2022 and some how missed this!

Early December 1776. When the Continental Army was safely across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, the artist Charles Willson Peale arrived with a Philadelphia militia unit in answer to Washington’s call for help. Peale thought the army looked as wretched as any men he had ever seen. One man who was with a Maryland unit as part of the rear guard had almost no clothes. He was in an old dirty blanket jacket, his beard long, and his face full of sores. Charles didn’t recognize his own brother, James.

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. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿: bit.ly/4iIAj3h

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). leadershipmattersshow.com/episodes/scott…

@HorneSupremacy @AmRevMuseum Fantastic.

Those very kind words from the @AmRevMuseum deserve some Hugh Mercer content! This is from my visit to the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia; it shows HM being admitted to SASP in 1757, IIRC. (cc. @Scott_History)

@EdwardMoser1 @AmRevMuseum Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

@AmRevMuseum Except for the American flag on one soldier's arm, they look like Soviet soldiers and their propaganda of the time. The artist worked for the Office of War Information which, perhaps not coincidentally, was riddled with Russian spies.

The Commander in Chief’s Standard, on view at the Museum, appeared on a US military recruitment poster during World War II. Artist Bernard Perlin used American soldiers as models for the painting from which the poster was produced. #DDay81 Our collection: bit.ly/4aNTNPh

this makes me very happy

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. ⛺️: bit.ly/44RDJwn

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: bit.ly/3XpzZha

@DWaldstreicher Legend.

"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: bit.ly/316e8xJ

#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: bit.ly/473TChs

@HorneSupremacy That’s fabulous

The marvel of long-distance #Viking trade networks: These whole Samanid dirhams were also part of the Storr Rock hoard, meaning they survived a journey from Central Asia to the Isle of Skye in almost perfect condition!

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. 🗑️: bit.ly/4biopKl

Happy #ValentinesDay from the Museum! Send these to your Revolutionary Valentine 💖💖 Download them all here: bit.ly/3HYzaUo

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

Join us Feb. 15-17 to explore the life, leadership, and legacy of the nation’s first president, George Washington, and the diverse range of people he interacted with through our Meet the Revolution series, crafts, gallery talks, and more. #PresidentsDay: bit.ly/3EmtkxJ