Revolutionary Beginnings: War and Remembrance in the First Year of America’s Fight for Independence

Explore our exhibition, Revolutionary Beginnings: War and Remembrance in the First Year of America’s Fight for Independence, in this short video. Drawn principally from the Institute’s library and museum collections, Revolutionary Beginnings,  explores three critical early battles of the Revolution before the signing of the Declaration of Independence was signed—at Bunker Hill in Massachusetts, at Quebec in Canada, and at Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina—to reveal the extent of rebellion across the American colonies in its first year and how the three battles have been remembered and commemorated, both in the immediate aftermath as well as generations later.