Independent historian Chip Bragg commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, where Maj. Gen. William Moultrie commanded a valiant defense of an unfinished log fort against a determined British naval attack at the entrance of Charleston harbor in South Carolina. Drawing from extensive research, this talk will provide an in-depth overview of […]
Award-winning historian Michael Auslin discusses his new book that demonstrates how Thomas Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence have inspired implausibly varied causes, from suffragists and civil rights leaders to groups waging war on the United States government. Auslin will address the lessons that should be taken from the document today and how the […]
Historian Emily Sneff discusses her new book that reveals the stories of how the Declaration of Independence was communicated in the United States and around the Atlantic World. In 1776, people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and read it in the pages of their local newspapers. Histories of the Declaration […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]