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Applications Open for the 2026 Master Teachers Seminar

Our next annual Master Teachers Seminar on the American Revolution will be held from July 12-18, 2026, at our Anderson House headquarters in Washington, D.C. This unique residential program features a week of lectures and fellowship with our team of scholars and in-house experts. Participants will also create original lesson content using the primary source collections of our library and museum. The application period for the 2026 Seminar closes on February 22, 2026.

 

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Events

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

Join us on Tuesday, December 9 at 6:30 p.m. for a lecture featuring historian Mark Anderson exploring and commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American campaign into Canada and the Battle of Quebec.

Exhibitions

Revolutionary Beginnings

Revolutionary Beginnings kicks off our commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War with an examination of three critical and underappreciated battles—at Bunker Hill, Quebec and Sullivan’s Island—that demonstrate how widespread the rebellion was prior to the Declaration of Independence.

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Conservation of a Return of Ordnance Stores

A recent conservation project focused on a “Return of Ordnance Stores” dated January 1, 1777—a detailed accounting of the cannons, carriages, powder, shot and military stores distributed by the Continental Army in and around Boston at the close of 1776. Conservation flatted the four-foot-long manuscript so its information can be studied.