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Museum Program

Slice of History: These Truths: The Declarations of Independence Quizzo

5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. ET
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America's Scientific Revolutionaries

Communicating Disease: Assessing Benjamin Rush’s Public Health Legacies at America’s 250th – A Conversation with Paul Offit

Featuring
Paul Offit
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
Fanella Heckscher
Lunch at the Library

Jane Colden's Botanic Manuscript: The Legacy of America's First Woman Botanist

Featuring
Fenella Greig Heckscher
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
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Publishing Salon

Local Author Extravaganza

5:30–7:00 p.m.
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Intergenerational Program
Museum Program

Revolutionary Saturdays

11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. ET
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Conference

America's 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies

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Museum Program

30/30: Dueling Declarations

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. ET
A picture of Jefferson Garden looking westward with Phil Hall in the background. The grounds have tents with people tabling in them and people doing the activities.
Intergenerational Program
Museum Program

APS Neighborhood Fun Day

11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. ET
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Lunch at the Library

City of Knowledge: Science, Place, Power

Featuring
Susan Brandt and Domenic Vitiello
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
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Public Lecture

Rome and America: Edward Gibbon and the American Revolution

Featuring
Linda Colley
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. ET
Cynthia Wilson talk with Alastair Bitsoi photo
Indigenous Learning Forum

The Four Corners Potato: Indigenous Subsistence and Agricultural Legacy on the Colorado Plateau

Featuring
Cynthia Wilson and Alastair Bitsoi
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
John William Nelson
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar

A Renegades’ History of the Revolutionary Frontier: Contesting Race and Nation in the Early American West

Featuring
John William Nelson
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET