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"Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution"
With Author Molly Beer
“A fresh, arresting history of the American Revolution as people lived it: facing forward. Molly Beer recovers the suspense, perils, and dazzling possibilities of the era, and her lapidary prose and keen sense of character bring Angelica Schuyler Church, her family, and her world to vivid, unforgettable life, making a great global event into a family drama, and vice versa.”
Jane Kamensky, president of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and author of A Revolution in Color.
Watch Other Stories from The Revolution
Eyewitness to Revolution
With David Wood
This illustrated talk will focus on the stories told by objects in the Concord Museum collection about the lead-up to April 19, 1775, and the epochal day itself.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream
With Peter Moore
Explore the origins of the most iconic words and concepts in American history with English historian Peter Moore. His conversation with fellow author Richard Cohen will provide a fuller understanding of our country's colonial past and current ideology.
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
With David Waldstreicher
A paradigm-shattering biography of the celebrated poet Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary work set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution.
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
With Stacy Schiff
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author shares her revelatory biography of Samuel Adams. In her distinctive voice, which has brought to life Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra, and The Witches of Salem, Stacy Schiff restores this revolutionary to the pantheon of the most critical Founding Fathers on the 300th anniversary of his birth.
The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America
With Julie Flavell
Alongside its legendary military men, the women of the Howe family wielded unprecedented – and, until now, unexamined – influence on the British side of the American Revolution.
Revolutionary Roots Stories
David Allen Lambert
Patriot or Redcoat? Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert discusses his connections to the American Revolution.
Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert
Elizabeth Peay
Genealogist Elizabeth Peay shared why her hometown is known as the ‘Heartbeat of the Revolution.'
Genealogist Elizabeth Peay
Melanie McComb
Who was Molly Pitcher, and what was her role in the American Revolution? Senior genealogist Melanie McComb explains the legend of Molly Pitcher and how she came to represent the courage and service of women in the American Revolution.
Senior Genealogist Melanie McComb
David Allen Lambert
Who was the last living link to the American Revolution? Chief genealogist David Lambert shares the story of Daniel Frederick Bakeman, the final Revolutionary War soldier to receive pension benefits - and one of the few captured in a surviving photograph.
Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert
Chris Child
Most people picture one Old North Church when they think of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. Senior genealogist Chris Child explains why Boston once had two—and why historians debate over which steeple held the famous lantern signal.
Senior Genealogist Chris Child