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2026 Research Fellowship Applications are Open

Each year our library offers fellowship opportunities to encourage advanced study of and publication on the importance and legacy of the American Revolution. The Thomas Jay McCahill III Fellowship provides financial support for a one-year period for one or more scholars to undertake advanced research on a topic germane to American history in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Short-Term Research Fellowships support onsite research at our library for a minimum of five days. Application deadlines are in late October and early November 2025.

 

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Events

Upcoming Special Program - From the Vault: Military Training in the 18th Century

Join us and historian Steven Elliott, Ph.D., on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 p.m., for a unique opportunity to examine original eighteenth-century training manuals and military handbooks from our collections up close, while exploring tactics and instructional methods that shaped military thought in the revolutionary era.

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.

New Online

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.