Video Category: Exhibition Videos

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

May 31, 2025

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 […]

Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic

June 27, 2024

On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, the marquis de Lafayette embarked on a tour of the United States, returning for a final time to the country he helped established and whose republican form of government he saw as a model for the rest of the world. In August 1824, Lafayette […]

Affairs of State: 118 Years of Diplomacy and Entertaining at Anderson House

February 24, 2023

Diplomacy and entertaining have always gone hand in hand in the nation’s capital. Anderson House, headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati, has played a historic role in that story during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—but one that has largely gone untold. Since its opening in 1905, the mansion has been the site of hundreds […]

Saving Soldiers: Medical Practice in the Revolutionary War

March 1, 2022

Explore our exhibition Saving Soldiers: Medical Practice in the Revolutionary War in this short video tour featuring a few highlight objects. Drawn principally from the Institute’s collections of rare books, manuscripts, portraits and artifacts, Saving Soldiers examined medical practice in the Continental Army and the experiences of surgeons and their patients under the dire conditions […]