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Monticello

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“... there is no quarter of the globe so desireable as America, no state in america so desireable as Virginia, no county in Virginia equal to Albemarle & no spot in Albemarle to compare to Monticello.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1795 Monticello, Thomas Jefferson...

November Highlight: Charles Thomson

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Charles Thomson. He was the first and only Secretary of the Continental Congress. His name is on the first printing of the Declaration of Independence. The manuscript Journals of the Continental Congress are in his hand. He created the final, approved...

December Highlight: Dunlap

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For this month's Research Highlight, we're going back to the basics: the who, what, where, when, and why of the very first printing of the Declaration of Independence, the Dunlap broadside! WHO John Dunlap was born in 1746 or 1747 in Strabane, County...

Research Highlight: The Green Broadside

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In 1949, Michael Walsh published a census of “Contemporary Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence” in the Harvard Library Bulletin. The Boston Public Library holds the only known copy of a broadside described by Walsh as follows :...

American Philosophical Society

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In May 1743, Benjamin Franklin issued “A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America.” Franklin and others founded the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia for this purpose, and today, it is the oldest...

243rd Lantern Ceremony at Old North Church in Boston

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Danielle Allen was the keynote speaker at the 243rd Lantern Ceremony at Old North Church, which commemorates the night that two lanterns were hung in the steeple to signal that the British regulars were moving "by sea." Click here for video of the full...

Delegate Discussions: The Lee Resolution(s)

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Independence, confederation, and foreign alliances. For months, these three elements were the talk of the Continental Congress. When Richard Henry Lee’s resolution was presented on June 7, 1776, it called for these three things, in this order: That these...

The Harvard Gazette: Reframing civics education

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By: Jill Radsken, Harvard Staff Writer Vassal Lane Upper School eighth-grader Bodie Morein toggled his laptop mouse, marching Brianna Little, his video game heroine, to a fort in New York state during revolutionary times. A crowd formed, chanting: “If I...