Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves,
Acc. No. SCMS1958.4.
American Revolution Web Project
In 2007, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) to create a major website on the American Revolution. The site features a broad range of
illustrative material about the Revolutionary era spanning from the French and Indian War to the election of
1800. While showcasing the key events that occurred in Williamsburg and Virginia, this portal
tells the complete story of the American Revolution in the Atlantic World and beyond through descriptive
texts, people, objects, historical documents, maps, and podcasts.
At the heart of the site is Colonial Williamsburg’s rich collections, both places and objects. The website features the
Foundation’s five principal collections: Archaeology; Architecture; Decorative Arts; Folk Art; and Rare
Books and Manuscripts. Each section of the site is linked to the material culture that tells about the events of the American Revolution and introduces us to the famous revolutionaries and ordinary townspeople whose lives were transformed in the
late eighteenth century.
The website is available online at: www.OurAmericanRevolution.org.
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George Washington Inaugural Button, Acc. No. 2003-22, 153;
No Stamp Act teapot, Acc. No. 1953-417, A-B;
Washington, D.C. Map Sampler by Eve Resler, Acc. No. 2006-26;
Van Blarenberghe watercolor miniature: Surrender at Yorktown, Acc. No. 2003-8, 2.
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Credits and Acknowledgments
The creation of the American Revolution web site is being funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has been named a We the People project. We are grateful to the NEH for its support. We also thank the Kern Family Foundation of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Kern funds support scholarship devoted to religious history, including the centrality of religion in everyday life and the struggle for religious liberty in the period 1750-1800.
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