Supporting scholarship and promoting popular understanding of the American Revolution is central to the work of the American Revolution Institute. The Institute welcomes distinguished scholars and authors to share their insights and discuss their latest research with the public at Anderson House through lectures, author's talks and panel discussions. The Institute also hosts a variety of other historical programs throughout the year, including our Lunch Bite object talks, battlefield tours, special Anderson House tour programs and other events. Many of the events we offer are free.
June 2023
Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk Weekend
Join us and five of our partner museums in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., that will be open free of charge for this annual festival featuring special exhibitions and activities. Participating museums include Anderson House, Dumbarton House, The Phillips Collection, The National Museum of American Jewish Military History, the Woodrow Wilson House and Dupont Underground. For additional information, visit www.DKMuseums.com.
Find out more »Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk Weekend
Join us and five of our partner museums in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., that will be open free of charge for this annual festival featuring special exhibitions and activities. Participating museums include Anderson House, Dumbarton House, The Phillips Collection, The National Museum of American Jewish Military History, the Woodrow Wilson House and Dupont Underground. For additional information, visit www.DKMuseums.com.
Find out more »Dinner and Lecture – Prelude to Yorktown: The 1780-1781 Virginia Campaign and the Siege of Yorktown
This dinner and lecture at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown kicks off the Institute's next two-day battlefield tour experience exploring one of the most iconic sieges in military history: the Siege of Yorktown. The evening begins at 4 p.m. with exclusive access to the museum for our guests, who will have the ability to explore the various indoor galleries and outdoor interpretive centers of the museum. Cocktails will be available through a cash bar in the museum lobby, followed…
Find out more »Battlefield Tour – The Siege of Yorktown
Join us in Yorktown, Va., to explore the Siege of Yorktown. This is a two-day experience that includes a buffet dinner and lecture at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, and a lecture given by Dr. J. Britt McCarley, chief historian and director for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Military History and Heritage Program, will analyze the 1780-1781 Virginia campaign that culminated with the Siege of Yorktown. Accompanying the dinner and lecture, a guided bus tour of…
Find out more »September 2023
Special Program – The 2023 Society of the Cincinnati Prize Presentation & Reception
The 2023 Society of the Cincinnati Prize honors historian Friederike Baer, Ph.D., and her ground-breaking book Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (Oxford University Press, 2022). Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hired an estimated thirty thousand German soldiers to fight in its war against the American rebels. Collectively known as Hessians, the soldiers and accompanying civilians, including hundreds of women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada, West Florida…
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