Laurie Halse Anderson
@halseanderson.bsky.social
Forest creature who writes books & champions libraries. American heart, Danish soul. Author of YAs: Speak, Shout & many more Historical adventure novels: Chains, Forge, Ashes & Fever 1793. And…. Rebellion 1776 is a NY Times bestseller! Huzzah! 🎉❤️🇺🇸📚
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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**BANNED** One of the most important young adult novel's ever -- SPEAK by @halseanderson.bsky.social -- is banned in Iowa. Last month, Laurie posted on social about what’s been happening. Please take a moment to learn about this. Books save lives. theauthorvillage.substack.com/p/banned-spe...
BANNED: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
An Update on What’s Currently Happening in Iowa
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In the absence of state and federal oversight, local school officials often are the final arbiters of sexual assault and gender-based discrimination on campus. This story was done in collaboration with @searchlightnm.bsky.social (CW: This piece references incidents of sexual assault.)
A middle schooler said she was raped. Then she was suspended from classes.
After a 13-year-old reported sexual assault, she was left to navigate a system where limited state and federal oversight leave school districts to decide how allegations are handled.
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More than a century before the #19thAmendment, ratified #onthisday in 1920, women were voting in New Jersey. Our online exhibit When Women Lost the Vote explores the little-told history of the nation’s first women voters from 1776-1807. Explore online: https://bit.ly/2UaqeWO
#OnThisDay in 1776, 250 years ago today, the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia. The first copy with the signers' names was printed in January 1777 by a woman named Mary Katharine Goddard. See her broadside on view at the Museum: https://bit.ly/3MYjbIm
Visiting Philadelphia? Take a deep dive into the city's Revolutionary history with a guide from @themanualguide.bsky.social, including a stop to the Museum to explore our special exhibition "The Declaration's Journey" and core galleries. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yy8CCs
These 8 Philadelphia historic activities reveal the America most tourists miss
Explore Philadelphia history in lesser-known gardens, churches, and estates that have stood as long as the country itself.
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I didn’t know anything about this event until I read a middle-grade historical fiction book ‘Rebellion 1776’ by @halseanderson.bsky.social last year. The Boston inoculation is a major plot point! If you have younger readers in your life I highly recommend
15 JUNE 1776, PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS: Abigail Adams is one of a party of local women given a tour of the warship Defence, a brig from Connecticut: founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...
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Join us #Juneteenth weekend for musical performances, costumed historical interpretation, in-gallery talks in our core galleries and special exhibition, discovery carts, and more to explore the continuing struggle for equality for all. June 19-21: https://bit.ly/4v7MhJT
Enjoy the longer summer days with extended hours at the Museum! ☀️ Starting Saturday, June 13, the Museum will be open every day with more time to explore the galleries from 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Plan your summer visit: https://bit.ly/3acQM11
A Revolutionary Summer
From Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day, the Museum of the American Revolution's special events and exhibits offer visitors of all ages the opportunity to explore the American Revolution and its ongoin...
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10 JUNE 1776, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA: With the army regrouped and reinforced from fleeing Boston, the British fleet departs for the invasion of New York.
Very sad to learn of the passing of Marjame Satrapi, author of Persepolis, a uniquely timely book right now, and a valued member of the Velshi Banned Book Clubhttps://www.ms.now/ali-velshi/persepolis-banned-book-club-rcna102367
'Persepolis' offers a glimpse of growing up amid a revolution
The graphic novel is also a love letter to Iranian culture.
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“It’s difficult to apply history to modern day; most scenarios are deeply nuanced, with too many extraneous factors to allow for a fair equivalence. Even so, Boston’s early public health system relied on an essential ingredient lacking today: trust.”
Andrew Wehrman@profwehrman.bsky.social · 4mo agoI’m happy to have had my research featured in this piece for @wgbh.org! It’s a short version of the arguments I made in my book, namely that revolutionary Americans understood their government had a duty to protect them from epidemic disease. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
30 MAY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “The Die is cast. We must all be Soldiers, and fight pro Aris et Focis”: John Adams writes to Samuel Cooper that Congress is preparing to raise seventy thousand additional troops to serve in New York, New England & Canada.
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Hale is one of the thousands of Continental personnel from New England who have flooded into western Long Island to prepare the defenses for the expected redcoat invasion in the coming summer.
30 MAY 1776, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK: Lieutenant Nathan Hale is disgusted by the Toryism he finds on Long Island: “It would grieve every good man to consider what unnatural monsters we have as it were in our bowels,” he writes to his brother Enoch.
An intersection in Philadelphia's Gayborhood now honors late WMMR radio host Pierre Robert. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/pierre-robert-street-latimer-philadelphia/
Late radio host Pierre Robert honored with street renaming in Philadelphia's Gayborhood
Friends and local groups said Pierre Robert was a major supporter of organizations for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV.
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20 MAY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: Georgia joins the Continental Congress, bringing the number of colonies represented to thirteen. Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett present their credentials and are accepted into the Congress.
New Episode of @bfworld.bsky.social! During the American Revolution, the British promised freedom to enslaved men & women who joined their lines. For David George, born into bondage in Virginia, it was an opening. But freedom across British lines was only 1 escape. 🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/441
🗳️ The Cross Keys Café will be closed today, May 19, as it serves as a polling location for #ElectionDay. The Museum will be open normal hours, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Find your polling place and more voter resources: https://pa.gov/vote
Thomas Jefferson made sure his daughters and at least some of the people he enslaved were inoculated against smallpox, just like he was. Martha Washington, the Adams family and many, many more of the founding families understood and embraced inoculation.
Revolutionary War 250@revwar250.bsky.social · 5mo ago16 MAY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: Hearing that Martha Washington intends to come to Philadelphia to be inoculated against smallpox, John Hancock writes to George Washington offer his own residence for her to recuperate: founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
These two panels have spoken directly to me the most.I am grateful for being seen as are so many others. Books like these need to be in our classrooms. My wife& I also wrote the educator guide for @halseanderson.bsky.social Speak graphic novel adaptation static.macmillan.com/static/macmi...
Our #ReadtheRevolution Speaker Series continues May 14 with @halseanderson.bsky.social! Join us for a talk about her process to research and write historical fiction for generations of young readers, including Rebellion 1776 and the bestselling Fever 1793. 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4uCDMFY
Read the Revolution Speaker Series with Laurie Halse Anderson
Author Laurie Halse Anderson will join the Museum’s Read the Revolution Speaker Series for a lecture and discussion about her process to research and write historical fiction for generations of young ...
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Historian here Happy Mothers Day thanks to the abolitionist feminist Julia Ward Howe and dedicated this year to the memory of Renee Good.
