This essay by Michael Auslin explores the history of the Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4-5, 1776, and features the copy of the broadside displayed in our exhibition Voices of Revolution, on loan from the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire. This essay first appeared on […]
Category: History Education
Lessons from the Boston Massacre
On the night of March 5, 1770—251 years ago tonight—a party of British soldiers shot and killed five Bostonians in an event known ever since as the Boston Massacre. The killings shook the loyalty of Britain’s North American colonists to the British government. John Adams wrote that the “foundation of American independence was laid” that […]
Why the American Revolution Matters
The American Revolution was shaped by high principles and low ones, by imperial politics, dynastic rivalries, ambition, greed, personal loyalties, patriotism, demographic growth, social and economic changes, cultural developments, British intransigence, and American anxieties. It was shaped by conflicting interests between Britain and America, between regions within America, between families and between individuals. It was […]