Join the Varnum Continentals and some very special guests for a unique event. It will celebrate the tenacity, heroism and patriotism of the First Rhode Island Regiment. The regiment comprised…
The City of Salem announces a series of events commemorating the 250th anniversary of "Leslie's Retreat," the first armed resistance to British authority in the lead up to the American…
Hannah Mather was 13 years old when she helped her uncle, Lt. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, escape from the sacking of his mansion during the Stamp Act riots. Then at 22,…
The City of Salem announces a series of events commemorating the 250th anniversary of "Leslie's Retreat," the first armed resistance to British authority in the lead up to the American…
The Lexington Historical Society recreates the 18th century tavern experience in Lexington’s most popular 18th century entertainment venue—the Revolutionary Buckman Tavern. Guests will mingle with the Lexington Militia of 1775…
The Revolution Ball is a colonial dress/black tie evening of live music, dancing, food, and drinks. The event celebrates the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Leslie’s Retreat from the…
On Sunday, February 26, 1775, about 250 redcoats marched through Marblehead, sent by the royal governor to search for weapons. When that column of redcoats stalled at a drawbridge in…
Step back in time and converse with two of the Revolution’s most influential writers: John Adams and Mercy Otis Warren! Through a combination of first-person narratives and actual primary source…
Join us on Saturday, March 1, 2025, when a group of living historians take over the John Brown House Museum to share opposing viewpoints. Sample historical teas from Ocean State Spice & Tea as…
Join us to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Providence Tea Party, an iconic moment in Rhode Island’s Revolutionary history. This event will honor the bold act of resistance by…
The Friends of Minuteman National Park present a living history event, "Spies Among Us," at the historic Wright Tavern in Concord, Mass. Also co-sponsoring the event are Wright Tavern, Concord…
Historic-fashion maven Karen (Ren) Antonowicz will take visitors on a journey through the fashion history of the nation’s First Ladies in a presentation at New Haven Museum. Called “Fashion &…
Annually, on a Saturday in early April, the Bedford Minuteman and Minuteman companies from the area converge on Willson Park in Bedford, Mass. They do it to commemorate the spirit…
Author Keith Marshall Jones III will share a new and definitive account of inland Connecticut’s only Revolutionary War engagement, on April 27, 1777, in a lecture at New Haven Museum.…
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