Video Category: 250th Commemorative Lectures

Lecture—The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776

Mark R. Anderson
December 9, 2025

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American campaign into Canada, historian Mark Anderson examines the American colonies’ efforts to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free Canadians from British “tyranny.” Drawing from his research, Anderson offers new insight into the key political and military factors that ultimately doomed America’s first foreign war of […]

A 1773 British Army List and the Battle of Bunker Hill

Andrew Outten
June 20, 2025

The Institute’s historical programs manager, Andrew Outten, discusses a 1773 register of British Army officers, annotated with casualties suffered during the first battles of the Revolution—most notably at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Beginning in 1740, the British Army published annual books listing officers serving within the army’s various regiments, along with their dates of […]

Bunker Hill and American Memory

Paul Lockhart
June 17, 2025

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, historian Paul Lockhart of Wright State University, offers a reassessment of the battle and explores how various misconceptions about it have been formed in American memory over the last two and a half centuries. This program accompanies our current exhibition, Revolutionary Beginnings: War and Remembrance […]

The British Army in Boston, 1774-1776

Don Hagist
June 5, 2025

Historian Don Hagist, editor of the Journal of the American Revolution, explores the British Army in Boston before and after the opening shots of the Revolution on April 19, 1775. Drawing from his research that focuses on the common soldier within the British ranks, Mr. Hagist discusses the experiences of the army stationed in Boston […]

The Battles of Lexington and Concord

J.L. Bell, Alexander Cain, Jarrad Fuoss
April 29, 2025

To kick off our eight-year-long 250th anniversary celebrations of the American Revolution, this panel discussion highlights the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the beginning of the American Revolution. Panelists include historians J.L. Bell discussing the prelude of the two events of April 19, 1775; Alexander Cain highlighting the engagements through the perspectives of the […]