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 2022
Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk Weekend
Join us and four 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 for the first time, Dupont Underground. For additional information, visit www.DKMuseums.com. Currently, all visitors to Anderson House age 2 and older are required…
Find out more »Art in Bloom DC
Experience the exquisite art and architecture of our headquarters, Anderson House, as never before, as floral sculptures inspired by the art and furnishings are displayed throughout the museum. Art in Bloom DC is a unique opportunity to view interpretations of specific artworks, furnishings and architectural details rendered in a floral medium. More than two dozen of Washington’s most creative and innovative floral designers have come together to showcase their unique style, vision and skill through the display of flowers, inspired…
Find out more »September 2022
Painting the Revolution: An Evening with Artist Adrian Martinez
$25.00 General Public | $20.00 Society of the Cincinnati Members & ARI Associates Join us as we welcome artist Adrian Martinez and his paintings to Anderson House. In 2017, Martinez, a native of Washington, D.C., was commissioned to create ten original paintings depicting various scenes of the Battle of Brandywine, fought on September 11, 1777, in southeastern Pennsylvania. To date, he has completed four of these commissioned paintings. Unlike many historical artists who only depict the combat of major battles,…
Find out more »October 2022
Livestream – Chinese Tea and American Rebels: The Global Origins of the Revolutionary Crisis
Watch live online as historian Nick Bunker delivers the annual George Rogers Clark Lecture. Drawing on his book, An Empire on the Edge, a 2015 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, this lecture reexamines the Boston Tea Party and the onset of the revolution in Massachusetts in 1774, and places them in their global context. Making connections between events in China, India, London, and America, Bunker discusses how Britain’s commercial dynamism outstripped its political imagination and how a 1772…
Find out more »December 2022
Dinner and Lecture – The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry
Please note: This event was originally scheduled for September 30, but was postponed due to inclement weather. The southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the patriot cause was slow in coming. Decades of animosity between coastal elites and backcountry settlers who did not enjoy accurate representation in the assemblies meant a complex political and social milieu throughout the turbulent time. While examining the political, social and military history of the southern backcountry,…
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