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.
September 2018
Lunch Bite – French Model 1763 infantry musket
When the Revolutionary War began, the patriots were desperate for military arms. France quietly supplied the Continental Army with surplus weapons. This French Model 1763 infantry musket was one of the first to arrive. Join Executive Director Jack Warren for a discussion of how the French supplied our desperate need for arms and equipment and how we know that this musket, recently acquired for our collections, was one of the first French muskets supplied to the Continental Army. The presentation…
Find out more »October 2018
Concert – Broadway Classics
Jacqueline Neimat, soprano, Jose Cueto, violinist, H. David Meyers, oboist, and Jose Ramost-Santana, pianist, perform songs from famous Broadway musicals. This is the second performance of the fall American Music Series. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Find out more »Author’s Talk – American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
Born in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the Society of the Cincinnati was created to preserve the fraternal connections forged by the officers of the Continental and French armies on the battlefields of the new United States. Framed on the Revolution's ethical ideal of honor, the members of the Cincinnati pledged, "to promote and cherish, between the respective States, that union and national honor so essentially necessary to their happiness, and the future dignity of the American Empire." Led by…
Find out more »Lunch Bite – Recruitment Broadsides
Michele Lee Silverman, research services librarian, discusses recruitment broadsides for the Revolutionary War. As America’s war for independence from Great Britain continued into 1776, the Continental Army faced depleting resources, including hundreds of soldiers whose enlistment terms were set to expire. The army needed to encourage soldiers to reenlist and entice even more to join. Broadsides, a single sheet of paper with print on one side, offered a quick and inexpensive method for the army to advertise their initiatives and…
Find out more »Livestream – The American Revolution on the Spanish Borderlands
Lexington, Valley Forge and Yorktown are familiar, but few Americans have ever heard of the capture of Mobile or the Siege of Pensacola—events that were critical to the outcome of the Revolutionary War, the future of the American South and the lives of the people of the Gulf Coast. In the 2018 George Rogers Clark Lecture, Professor Kathleen DuVal draws on more than a decade of research to illuminate the American Revolution on the Spanish borderlands, where Spanish and British…
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