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Amazing Maps @amazingmap - Franklin D. Roosevelt’s hand-drawn plan for a national highway system
This map dates to 1938 and reflects a moment when the United States began to think about highways as a single national system rather than a patchwork of state and local roads. The blue lines were personally drawn by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who sent the map to the Bureau of Public Roads to indicate where modern express highways might one day be built.
At the time, the country already had a dense network of numbered highways, established in the 1920s. What was missing was coordination. Long-distance travel still relied on slower routes that passed through towns and city centers, limiting speed, safety, and reliability. This map focuses instead on a small number of continuous corridors intended to link major regions directly.
The proposal was exploratory rather than prescriptive. It did not specify engineering standards, funding mechanisms, or construction timelines. Instead, it framed highways as national infrastructure, tied to economic recovery, interstate commerce, and strategic mobility during a period of growing global uncertainty.
Nearly twenty years later, the Interstate Highway System would be authorized in 1956. While its final form differed in scale and design, this 1938 map captures the conceptual turning point. It shows the United States just beginning to imagine highways not simply as roads, but as a coordinated system shaping how the country would move, trade, and grow.
https://x.com/amazingmap/status/2010820525195739340

America250 @America250 - 👀🏈
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NFL Football Operations @NFLFootballOps
To celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary, game coins and balls will feature the America 250 logo throughout the #NFLPlayoffs.
(If you want to call the toss, the logo is heads and the NFL shield is tails.) 👀 ⤵
https://x.com/America250/status/2010826664784060776

American Revolution Institute @AmRevInstitute - Join us on Tues., 2/17 at 6:30 p.m. for the next installment of our From the Vault series honoring Maj. Gen. Henry Knox and exploring treasures from our collections that illuminate Knox’s wartime service and legacy. Tickets are $25 per person. Learn more
https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/event/from-the-vault-henry-knox-and-the-artillery-of-the-american-revolution/