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Join Us during “Winter Weekends” in December for Musical Performances, Ornament-Making, and More Festive Fun

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.

Scottish officer Patrick Ferguson developed a rifle, like this example, that allowed the user to fire at nearly twice the rate of fire of a musket.

American artist Harrington G. Fitzgerald painted this version of General George Washington’s famous 1776 crossing of the Delaware River about 100 years after the Revolutionary War.

In partnership with the Museum, Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust will present the sixth annual Lonaé A. Moore Forum, “It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding."

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.