The American Revolution Institute

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The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati is a history organization dedicated to promoting understanding and appreciation of the American Revolution through library, museum, and education programs.

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A Conversation with J. Michael Phelps on the Battle of Brooklyn
Aug 24, 2026 · original
The Battle of Brooklyn, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first full-scale land battle of the Revolutionary War. It was also a disaster that nearly destroyed George Washington’s army only weeks after the Declaration of Independence. Yet J. Michael Phelps argues that the battle has not simply been misunderstood. It has been only half covered. In his new book, Squandered Valor: The Untold Story of Battle Hill and the Battle of Brooklyn , Phelps reexamines one of the most important and neglected episodes of the battle: the fighting on what is now known as Battle Hill, the highest point in Brooklyn. There, a force of about 300 men under General Samuel H. Parsons, primarily soldiers of the 17th Connecticut Continental Regiment, captured and held the summit against repeated British counterattacks. Providing specifics of the casualties from the reports of the British themselves, Phelps demonst
A New French View of the Chesapeake, 1781
Jun 29, 2026 · original
A rare French eyewitness account of the Battle of the Chesapeake is now available as a digital surrogate on The Field , the digital archive of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati. View the Auguste Journal The unpublished 185-page naval journal was kept aboard the ship Auguste , an eighty-gun ship of the line serving in the fleet of Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse, during the Yorktown campaign. Its digitization advances one of the central purposes of the Institute’s library: to preserve and make accessible rare printed and manuscript materials relating to the art of war in the Revolutionary era, documenting the conduct of the war and the achievement of American forces and their French allies in securing the independence of the United States. Written in French by Charles Martin Le Baigue, who served as cuisinier (cook) aboard the French ship, th
Have You Seen the First Declaration?
Mar 4, 2026 · original
This essay by Michael Auslin explores the history of the Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4-5, 1776, and features the copy of the broadside displayed in our exhibition Voices of Revolution, on loan from the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire. This essay first appeared on The Patowmack Packet . You can read the original version here . For most Americans, the Declaration of Independence is the one on permanent display in the rotunda of the National Archives. That faded scroll has drawn tens of millions of Americans to view it since its first enshrinement, in the Library of Congress in 1924 and subsequently in the National Archives after its move there in 1952. It was a fascination with the physical survival of the parchment that inspired me to write National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (available for pr
Introducing Our New Digital Archives and Library Catalog
Feb 27, 2026 · original
In February, we reached a major milestone: the American Revolution Institute’s new digital archive and library collections platform is now live. This launch matters because the Institute’s headquarters is home to one of the world’s greatest collections of books and manuscripts on the history of the Revolutionary War, as well as a research library on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century military and naval history. The new platform brings together digitized materials from across our archival and library holdings and makes them accessible in a modern, research-ready environment for researchers, educators, students, and lifelong learners. We invite readers to explore the American Revolution Institute Digital Collections Catalog, The Field, here: https://collections.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/ https://collections.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/ We chose the name The Field deliberately. I
The World Would Never Be the Same: French Memories of the War for America
Dec 15, 2025 · original
Ken Burns’s The American Revolution presents the war for independence as a defining event with consequences that reached far beyond the thirteen colonies. At the moment of Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, the film underscores this significance with the observation that “the world would never be the same.” Some reviews have noted that while the film suggests the Revolution reshaped the wider world, it does not explore that global impact in detail. The experiences of the French officers who served in America help fill that gap. Their letters, journals, engravings, and portraits show how the war quickly grew into an international story and how its outcome reverberated across the Atlantic. Many of these firsthand accounts survive today because they were preserved by the American Revolution Institute, which maintains a rich collection of French officers’ writings and artifacts. For these m
The American Revolution—A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt
Nov 14, 2025 · original
The epic new documentary series The American Revolution —a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt—premiers on PBS on November 16, 2025. This six-part series chronicles the story of the creation of the United States and its eight-year war for independence from Great Britain. Last month, the American Revolution Institute hosted a conversation with Geoffrey C. Ward, the principal script writer for the documentary, and award-winning historian and consultant Rick Atkinson, discussing the making of Ken Burns’s The American Revolution . Watch the Video The American Revolution Institute is a center for education dedicated to promoting understanding and appreciation of the American Revolution and its legacy. We imagine a future in which every American is inspired by the American Revolution, the vast event that created our nation, and embraces its revolutionary ideals of universal lib
Honoring the French-American Alliance
Aug 13, 2025 · original
In the library of the American Revolution Institute, history surrounds on the shelves. Among the collections are works that help tell the story of the alliance between France and the United States, one of the most important turning points in deciding the Revolution. This partnership, formalized in February 1778 with the Treaty of Alliance, was more than a military arrangement. It was a meeting of political ideals, strategic necessities and mutual hope for reshaping the balance of power in the Atlantic world. The library holds printed and manuscript material from before the alliance through to the war’s conclusion after the Franco-American victory at Yorktown and the establishment of the Society of the Cincinnati. From its founding in 1783, the Society included French officers who had served in America under Rochambeau, d’Estaing and Lafayette. This bond was deliberate. The Society wasn’t
Mapping the Revolution with Information Science Graduate Students
Mar 12, 2025 · original
The library of the American Revolution Institute recently hosted four graduate students as part of the University of Michigan’s School of Information (UMSI) Alternative Spring Break program . The UMSI students spent a week in Washington, D.C., to work with us on a project, “Mapping the Revolution,” that supports cataloging and digitization of historic and rare maps. Beginning in 2025, a selection of the American Revolution Institute’s maps, charts, views and surveys will be featured in American Revolutionary Geographies Online , a new online resource led by the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. To increase exposure and improve the discoverability of the Society of the Cincinnati’s map collection, UMSI students surveyed additional maps, improved catalog records and completed an inventory of carto
The Mysterious Hero’s Return
Oct 31, 2021 · original
Among the most curious treasures in the library of the American Revolution Institute is a monochrome aquatint with etching of a properly dressed gentleman with his left hand gripping the pommel of his sword and his right arm draped around a bare-breasted woman whose arm is curled suggestively around his neck. The legend reads The Hero returned from Boston . The publication line reads “London. Printed for Thos. Hart, as Act directs, 7th Sepr. 1776.” The print is excruciatingly rare. Besides our imprint, there is one in the Yale University Art Gallery. Our effort to understand the print leads down peculiar byways of the eighteenth-century print business. The name of the publisher, Thomas Hart, is associated with a series of fictitious portraits of American leaders, including George Washington (including one on horseback and one on foot), John Hancock, Israel Putnam, David Wooster, Horatio
The People’s Constitution
Sep 18, 2021 · original
In 1787 Thomas Jefferson was in Paris, wasting his time as ambassador from a government that had so little authority that the French government could safely ignore it. Many of Jefferson’s American friends, including James Madison, were deeply concerned about violent unrest driven by high taxes and the burden of debts compounded by deflation. In Massachusetts those toxic conditions drove thousands of farmers to take up arms to stop debt collection, leading the state government—inexperienced, insecure, and imperious—to impose order at the point of a bayonet. Jefferson was not deeply concerned about the unrest in Massachusetts, known then and since as Shays’ Rebellion. He agreed with Madison that the insurgents had committed “absolutely unjustifiable” acts, but he thought “they were founded in ignorance, not in wickedness.” The insurgents did not understand that their distress was the resul

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