New free virtual webinar recording on "Tracing Revolutionary War Soldiers at the State Archives of North Carolina" now available on their YouTube channel. Learn about what the records available there can tell you about the Revolutionary War period!
To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe
The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world
While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact—it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress.
"OTD 1765, the British official charged with administering the hated #StampAct was hung in effigy from an elm tree near Boston Common. ...Over the next weeks, the great elm emerged as the place in Boston for protest meetings. People of all classes — including unskilled laborers, #enslaved people, & #women, who were normally excluded from official town meetings — flocked to the "Liberty Tree" to post notices, hear speeches, & hold outdoor meetings."
The Story Behind a Forgotten Symbol of the #AmericanRevolution: The Liberty Tree. While #Boston landmarks like the Old North Church still stand, the Liberty Tree, gone for nearly 250 years, has been lost to history | Smithsonian Magazine
I know #Outlander is #fantasy fiction and I have no trouble believing the time travel, but now they've gone too far. Benedict Arnold drunk at the Battle of Saratoga? Dan Morgan, famous sharpshooter, hunter, and backwoodsman, wearing all white?!
#OTD 1776 - General Benedict Arnold desperately requests anchors, paint and tarbrushes, spyglasses, speaking trumpets, fishnets, grape, canister & double-headed and chain shot, for America's first navy, which he is building on Lake Champlain, at Skenesboro (now Whitehall), which was then remote wilderness.