This image depicts the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg. On several occasions during the 1760s and 1770s, members of the Virginia House of Burgesses reconvened there after their official meeting had...
This image features an imagined scene of Bostonians’ resistance to the Stamp Act. The image was produced by a German-Polish engraver almost twenty years after the Stamp Act, in the...
This portrait depicts Richard Henry Lee, a wealthy Virginian who played a prominent role in promoting the revolutionary cause. Charles Willson Peale, the eminent American artist, painted this portrait in...
In this document, Thomas Jefferson recalls the life and political career of his fellow Virginian, Patrick Henry. Although he acknowledges Henry’s eloquence and commitment to the revolutionary cause, he is...
This portrait by the American artist John Singleton Copley shows Samuel Adams pointing to the royal charter of the colony of Massachusetts in defense of its citizens’ rights. Adams was...
William Pitt was George III’s minister during the French and Indian War. He crafted the strategy that insured Britain’s victory over France. Later, as a member of Parliament, he opposed...
This peaceful demonstration in favor of voting rights for women occurred in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920. Later that year, women’s suffrage became law when Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state...
On July 14, 1789, a revolutionary crowd stormed the Bastille, as this contemporary painting shows. Both a fortress and a prison, the Bastille housed valuable gunpowder (which the crowd seized)...
This image, printed in London, depicts the tarring and feathering of Boston Customs Commissioner John Malcolm four weeks after the Boston Tea Party. A noose hangs from a Liberty Tree....
This image depicts the events in Boston of March 5, 1770 when British soldiers fired into an unruly mob that had gathered in protest around the King’s Customs House. Wishing...