Remembering the Revolution

History and memory of America’s founding, from 1776 to today

How have Americans remembered, retold, and debated the events and ideas of the American Revolution across the past 250 years? This dynamic collection of resources for teachers, students, and history buffs of all kinds offers a window into this fascinating and complicated ongoing process.
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Original
Source
Library

Explore a robust and growing library of original sources, categorized by type and topic, from the past 250 years of American history.

Document
Collections

Explore original source document collections organized around specific historical moments and/or themes.

Current
Conversations

Explore documents from the last 15 years that illuminate the most recent phase in the process of remembering, retelling, and debating the events and ideas of the American Revolution.

Teaching
and
Learning

Explore teaching materials developed by New American History and designed for instructors who want to help students understand how representations and invocations of Revolutionary history have changed over time.

Featured Projects

States of Independence

A video project created by New American History and Monticello that illuminates how national independence was anticipated, debated, and enacted in each of the original 13 states during the American Revolution and how independence has been remembered and invoked in each of these states over the last 250 years.

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