Support the American Revolution Institute and its commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. Our 2025 exhibition, Revolutionary Beginnings: War and Remembrance in the First Year of America’s Fight for Independence, will explore three lesser-known battles that demonstrate how wide-spread the rebellion was prior to the Declaration of Independence.
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Join us on Friday, December 13 at 12:00 p.m. ET, for a virtual lecture featuring historian John Oldfield, Ph.D., examining the anti-slavery debates of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the Atlantic World and how they influenced the marquis de Lafayette’s fight to advocate for the abolition of slavery.
Fete Lafayette marks the bicentennial of the marquis de Lafayette’s farewell tour of the United States. In August 1824, he arrived for a thirteen-month tour of the country he helped establish and whose democratic experiment he saw as a model for the rest of the world. The exhibition explores how Lafayette was celebrated during his farewell tour and how the tour reflects the fulfillment and ongoing promise of the nation’s founding ideals.
The curriculum that accompanies our traveling trunks is now available to educators anytime as part of our online suite of classroom resources. Explore lessons about diversity in the Continental Army, George Washington’s challenges as commander in chief, baron von Steuben’s “Blue Book,” America’s first purple heart and more.
