Completed the 12 monthly prompts for my 1775-2025 #amrev250 #revwar250 reading challenge with Thomas Desjardin’s Through a Howling Wilderness. A book about the American invasion of Canada in 1775. Over 12 prompts, plus 2 bonus prompts, 31 total books. #booksky
Forgot to update my #amrev250 reading challenge prompts for September (a biography of Patrick Henry) and October (an all in one history of the Revolution. November’s prompt is a history of the 1775 smallpox outbreak. #booksky #revwar250
Finished August’s #RevWar250 book prompt, the works of Phillis Wheatley, early. I was also able to squeeze in @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social ‘s The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, which gave fantastic historical background to many of the poems. #AmRev250 #booksky
If you like podcasts and want to learn more about the American Revolution, I can’t recommend this podcast enough. Well and little known history presented by a host and historians in a format that keeps you enthralled.
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Completed Middlekauf’s Glorious Cause in May. June’s #amrev250 prompt is a book about the Battle of Bunker Hill. Starting of with Philbrick’s Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, A Revolution and hopefully getting around to Ketchum’s Decisive Day. #revwar250
A copy of The Lexington Alarm was printed by Mary Katherine Goddard in the Baltimore Advertiser. #revwar250 #amrev250 #baltimore
250 years ago, today 26 April, word of the Battles at Lexington and Concord arrived in Baltimore. #amrev250 #revwar250
Who Hung the Lanterns? The Signal That Sparked a Revolution 3 days until the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride—Who hung the lanterns in the Old North Church… and what happened when the light flickered?
#MidnightRide #PaulRevere #RevWar250 #HistoryMystery www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vd0...
Only 7 days until the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride! 🐎
But how well do you know the man behind the midnight dash?
His age? His job? His many kids?
Find out in today’s video 👀
#PaulRevere #RevWar250 #HistoryNerd #KepWestguardAdventures www.tiktok.com/@eileenschna...
Shuffled my #AmRev250 prompt for March around, and completed it with a re-read of Gross’ fantastic social history of Concord with The Minutemen and their World. For April, the focus is Lexington & Concord. Starting off with a re-read of Hackett Fisher’s Paul Revere’s Ride. #RevWar250 #booksky
Finished my February #AmRev250 reading prompt today, completing 4 biographies; Stoll & Schiff’s work on Samuel Adams, Unger’s Hancock, and Di Spigna’s Joseph Warren. Enjoyed the first 7/8 of Schiff’s Sam Adams, but the last bit felt extremely rushed after April 1775. #RevWar250
Two books for February’s #amrev250 prompt, which is biography about Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren or John Hancock. First was a reread of Ira Stoll’s biography Samuel Adams, A Life. Second was Di Spigna’s Founding Martyr about Dr. Joseph Warren. #booksky #revwar250
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Final book from January’s #amrev250 Reading Challenge was Mary Beth Norton’s 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. Next up for February’s prompt is a biography about Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren or John Hancock. #booksky #revwar250
Finished up two more for the January prompt of my #amrev250 #revwar250 reading challenge. Dunmore’s War by Williams goes into profound detail over the conflict, while Beck’s Igniting the Revolution has some interesting new points/suppositions about Lexington and Concord. #booksky
Finished Serena Zabin’s wonderful The Boston Massacre: A Family History for book 3 of my January 2025 #amrev250 #revwar250 Reading Challenge. Now heading south with Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era by Glenn Williams.
Pershing and Petain - pre-bad guy mode - chilling at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown, 1931
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