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This excerpt from Benjamin Carp explains the role of colonial meeting spaces as opinions of everyday people gained increasing political influence.

Historian and author Holger Hoock shatters the myth that the American Revolution was a tame affair carried out by statesmen in drawing rooms. In his “original, thought-provoking” (Wall Street Journal) recent book Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth (Crown, 2017), Hoock shows that the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war.

Explore symbols of the republic on objects and artifacts found in the Museum's gallery on the New York Campaign.

How were the people of British North America governed, and how did they protest to make there voices heard?

Trace how the idea of gaining independence rose through colonies, even as tensions rose and support became more dangerous.

Learn how we have remembered, celebrated, and honored the diverse range of veterans who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Check out a selection of historically inspired crafts and activities below that families can make and do at home.

A large-scale reconstruction of an American privateer ship commissioned by the Museum of the American Revolution is now being transported to the new Museum after being constructed by Independence Seaport Museum’s boat-building workshop, Workshop on the Water.

A recently launched virtual tour from the Museum of the American Revolution allows digital explorers from across the globe to experience a recreation of Washington’s wartime field headquarters to learn more about life on campaign during the Revolutionary War.

This excerpt from Phillip Morgan explains the value of studying slave culture in the eighteenth century and “humanizing the institution of slavery.”