Revolutionary War Programs

 

 

Thomas Jefferson

 

"May it be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man."-- Thomas Jefferson.

Have a conversation with
Thomas Jefferson

Mr.  Phil Lauricella portrays the famous author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States.

Compare the 18th and the 21st centuries. Learn about the writing of the Declaration.

Hear Mr. Jefferson's views about:

  • The New Constitution

  • Lewis & Clark

  • The Bill of Rights

  • Personal Liberties

  • Slavery

  • His "Trinity of Heroes"

  • Religious Freedom

  • More about Mr. Jefferson!

    Abigail Adams

    I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors....

    "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands......

    "Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

     

    Abigail Adams


    Patriot and witness to the birth of the American Revolution

    Portrayed by Rebecca Tulloch

    The American Colonies have signed the Declaration of Independence; it is July of 1776; General George Washington has only just liberated the city of Boston from the British; and Abigail Adams prepares to inoculate herself and her children from the dreaded Small Pox.  

    Spend time with Abigail Adams by her spinning wheel as she reminisces about her experiences living in and around Boston prior to and during the early years of the American
    Revolution.  Eyewitness to the birth of the American Revolution, John Adam's Dearest Friend, Wife, Mother, and American Patriot.  

     

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    Colonial Soldier

     

    These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

    --Thomas Paine

    The Colonial Soldier 

    by Mr. Steve Quick. 

    Get beyond the images of wooded teeth and tax revolts and into the real heart and soul of the American Revolution.  Learn the motives that drove the colonists to independence, including an introduction to the early history of slavery.  Understand with the help of authentic equipment and engaging video clips the dilemma the American soldier faced. 

    The Loyalist Perspective

    "Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our colonies and plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men and forgetting allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them........we hereby declare that not only all our officers, civil and military are obliged to exert their utmost endeavors to suppress such rebellion and to bring the traitors to justice but that all our subjects of this realm and the dominions thereunto belonging are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellions and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us, our crown and dignity....."

    ---King George III

    Algernon Dobbin was a native of Cornwall in southwestern England.  Choosing not to follow the maritime career path of most of his family, he purchased an Ensign's commission in the newly-formed Royal Ameican Regiment in 1757  After serving during the French and Indian War, he decided to remain in the American colonies, settling in a quaint little town in Pennsylvania named Gettysburg.

    Dobbin soon faced a dilemma--to remain loyal to Great Britain or to his new home.  Finally, he made a choice.  Which side did he choose?  Why?  What impact would his choice have upon his life?  Join living historian Ward Brown as he tells the tale of the typical yet relatively unknown and unappreciated point of view of many people involved in the birth of our Nation, and the onset of eventual decline of a might Empire!

     

    More on our other Presenters to come! Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and a Western Frontier Colonial

       

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