The desire to gather the papers and records of the Revolution informed a series of publishing projects....
American Revolution
Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas...
The victory of France and its American allies reaffirmed France’s status as a great military power. Introduction...
If Walter Isaacson’s Franklin winks at us over the centuries, Dr. Small plays hide and seek. One...
The Old North Church was built in December 1723, inspired by the works of Christopher Wren. Old...
Henry and Lucy Knox sacrificed family, home, and beliefs to adopt their new American identity. In late...
In the summer of 1776, Boston offered smallpox inoculation to everyone and required those who declined to...
Three American Revolutionaries your textbooks never told you about. Joseph Harris Not all enslaved Americans of the...
Here he was a living legend—a pristine icon of the most glorious days of the Revolution. From Hero...
When people fled the new United States in the 18th century, they were taken in by the...
The ring was tasked to provide General Washington information on British Army operations in New York City....
Refusing to lead a military coup against the Continental Congress in 1783 put the new nation on...
Joseph Warren’s political activism began with his writings about the Stamp Act, and he began to be...
Loyalist individuals were inspired to action or inaction by a variety of motives, only some of which...
When their cause was defeated, about 15 percent of the Loyalists (65,000–70,000 people) fled to other parts...
Loyalists comprised 15-20% of the colonial population during the Revolutionary War. The Patriots “Patriots,” as they came...
A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America’s War of Independence. Introduction We think we know...
What do the ghosts of that bloody history whisper to us now? At this moment that feels...
Mackintosh played a key role in riots and other events related to the protest and eventual repeal...
These acts worked, inadvertently, towards unifying colonists against British policy. Abstract The purpose of my project is...
It can be traced, in part, to the Enlightenment and its profound impact on colonial thinking. Political...
The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia in what is now Vermont in the decade prior...
Soldiers were typically yeoman farmers with a sense of honor and status and an ideological commitment to...
The term has also been applied to various later civilian paramilitary forces trying to recall the success...
Corroborating Prudence’s wartime adventures is difficult. Introduction Prudence Patterson was born in 1743 (either in Wales or...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her...
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, 17 June, 1775, by John Trumbull...
John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, 1786–1820, oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 31...
This painting depicts the forces of British Major General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805) (who was...