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Apply for the 2026 Master Teachers Seminar

Our next annual Master Teachers Seminar on the American Revolution will be held from July 12-18, 2026, at our Anderson House headquarters in Washington, D.C. This unique residential program features a week of lectures and fellowship with our team of scholars and in-house experts. Participants will also create original lesson content using the primary source collections of our library and museum. The application period for the 2026 Seminar closes on February 22, 2026.

 

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Events

Upcoming Author's Talk—The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence

Join us on Tuesday, January 27 at 6:30 p.m. for an author’s talk featuring Lauren Duval discussing her new book that considers the dynamics of the household and reveals the ways in which occupation fundamentally upended the structures of colonial society and created opportunities for unprecedented economic and social mobility.

Exhibitions

Voices of Revolution

Opening on February 28!

As we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the exhibition Voices of Revolution will explore the variety of people who participated in the Revolutionary War and some of the battlefields where their paths crossed, underscoring the scale and importance of this event at the heart of our national identity.

New Online

Conservation of a Return of Ordnance Stores

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.