Lights, Camera, History! No. 2 – “1776”

1776

1972 | PG | 2h 21m

Thurs., March 26, 2026, 6:30 pm

** PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATED START TIME — This screening will now begin at 6:30 pm to accommodate the longer run time.

The Lindsay Theater

Join SVHS at the Lindsay Theater for the second film in our “Lights, Camera, History!” program series, where we join the Lindsay Theater in exploring history as it is portrayed and preserved through film.

Continuing this year’s theme of exploring the founding of the United States and America250 through film, March’s film is 1776. A film adaptation of the 1969 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, 1776 is a musical retelling of the American Revolution and the political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

After the film, SVHS will welcome special guest historian  for a brief presentation on the accuracy of the film and the events it portrays via Zoom. Tickets for this event are available through the Lindsay website, or in person at the Lindsay box office. Click the link below to be taken directly to the film’s ticket page.

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About Our Speaker:

KARIE DIETHORN Museum Curator Independence National Historical Park Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial US Department of Interior National Park Service 143 S. 3rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19106

Karie Diethorn has a Bachelor or Arts degree in history and medieval studies from Penn State University and a Masters degree in American history and a certificate in museum studies from the University of Delaware.

Following graduate school, she served as the curatorial intern at Independence National Historical Park and then as curator of collections at Old Economy Village, a component of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. She joined the National Park Service in 1988 as curator of the Longfellow National Historic Site and the John F. Kennedy National Historic Site near Boston. The following year, she rejoined the staff at Independence National Historical Park as a staff curator.

Since 1994, she has managed Independence Park’s museum operation as chief curator. She has taught historic site management as an Associate Professor in the University of Delaware graduate museum studies program and museum collections management as a Visiting Lecturer in Philadelphia’s University of the Arts graduate museum studies program. She is co-author of the catalog History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park (2001) and a contributor to the anthology of essays in Quaker Aesthetics, Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption (2003). Her most recent project is “People of Independence 1750 to 1840”, the permanent fine arts at Independence National Historical Park.