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Welcome to Harvard in 1776
Join us for a series of events and conversations about America's founding and Harvard's role in it.
Samuel Langdon
Harvard President in 1776
1600
Number of Troops Staying at Harvard during the War
140 Years
Age of the University in 1776
1,000
Pounds of Harvard Hall Roof Metal Used for Bullets during the American Revolution
8
Number of Harvard Alumni who Signed the Declaration of Independence
Cambridge & Concord, MA
Harvard Campus Locations during the American Revolution
Faculty Books
Declarations of Independence: A Global History (2008)
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1976)
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1988)
Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence (1992)
The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America (1992)
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1998)
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008)
A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion, 1770–1787 (1982)
The Colonial Mosaic: American Women, 1600–1760 (1995)
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (2012)
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (2005)
The Many Legalities of Early America (2001)
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (2017)
The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (1953)
Errand Into the Wilderness (1956)
The Conservative American Revolution (1976)
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution (1957)
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650–1750 (1982)
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (1991)
The Age of Homsepun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (2001)
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Office for Academic Culture and Community
Harvard University Native American Program
The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
The Program in American Studies
Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Committee Members
Tiya Miles
Taylor Maurice
Annette Gordon-Reed
Daniel Lord Smail (ex officio)
Riley Sutherland (graduate student)
Saffron Sener (graduate student)
Project logo designed by Saffron Sener
Project poster designed by Joshua Mejia
Project website designed by Joshua Mejia and Taylor Maurice
Printed programs and holding slides by Amy Simpson
