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Play Revolutionary Choices

Can you win American independence, establish American liberty and form a more perfect union? That’s the challenge of Revolutionary Choices, our new educational video game about the American Revolution that is now available to play online. You will face the dilemmas confronted by American 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 Revolutionary War.

 

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Museum Collections Database

Our museum collections database—now available online—provides access to some of our most important and iconic objects, with high-resolution images and detailed descriptions. Those objects include portraits of Revolutionary War soldiers, the weapons they carried, and artifacts made in the generations since to commemorate the legacy of American independence. Nearly one thousand objects are available now, with more added each week.

Exhibitions

America’s First Veterans

Over a quarter of a million Americans served in the armed forces that won our independence. Those who survived became America’s first veterans—the world’s first veterans of an army of free men. Although Anderson House is closed, you can now explore this theme and the art, artifacts, books and manuscripts in the exhibition in our new companion book, America’s First Veterans, released online on June 26.

A oil portrait of Philip Schuyler in the uniform of a Continental Army major general painted by John Trumbull

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Philip Schuyler: An Appreciation

The mayor of Albany, New York, has ordered a statue of  Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler removed from the front of city hall, where it has been on view since 1925. Before it’s gone, we should consider why Schuyler still deserves to be honored […]