Our short-form video series Year in Revolution is growing with the recent launch of videos exploring 1777 and 1778. Designed for classroom use, students and lifelong learners alike will learn about each year of the Revolution through a comprehensive overview video and five “who, what, where, when and how” videos. Watch the videos now on our website and YouTube channel.
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Join us on Friday, October 17 at 12:30 p.m. for a Lunch Bite featuring Museum Collections and Operations Manager Paul Newman discussing a 1785 portrait of Continental Navy officer Silas Talbot, painted by Ralph Earl.
Revolutionary Beginnings kicks off our commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War with an examination of three critical and underappreciated battles—at Bunker Hill, Quebec and Sullivan’s Island—that demonstrate how widespread the rebellion was prior to the Declaration of Independence.
A recent conservation project focused on a “Return of Ordnance Stores” dated January 1, 1777—a detailed accounting of the cannons, carriages, powder, shot and military stores distributed by the Continental Army in and around Boston at the close of 1776. Conservation flatted the four-foot-long manuscript so its information can be studied.
