News

Revolution In Play

The American revolutionaries won their independence while nurturing liberty and unity, creating a continental republic of free citizens. Doing as well is the challenge of Revolutionary Choices, the American Revolution Institute’s new educational video game, set for release in fall 2019. Players face the dilemmas confronted by the revolutionaries as they struggle to recruit and supply troops, win French support, suppress loyalists and defeat the British without trampling on rights or fracturing the union. Winning is tough—just as it was in the eighteenth century.

Learn more about Revolutionary Choices here.

Events

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

Mary Ball Washington led a difficult yet extraordinary life as a widow and landowner in colonial Virginia and as a demanding mother to five children, including future president George Washington. Join us on September 12 at 6:30 p.m. to hear Martha Saxton, professor emerita of history at Amherst College, discuss her biography of the mother of the father of our country.

Exhibitions

Revolutionary Reflections: French Memories of the War for America

An exciting array of journals, memoirs and portraits—several on public display for the first time—illustrate the varied impressions and recollections of French officers who served in America during the Revolutionary War. The exhibition, which is on view through October 27, also reflects how the upheaval of the French Revolution reshaped those memories.

Blog

How We Got Here

If you’re surprised by reports that “student activists” at Hofstra University are demanding the removal of a statue of Thomas Jefferson from campus because “Jefferson’s values aided in the construction of institutionalized racism and justified the subjugation of black people in the United […]