10 Ways To Personally Engage with the American Revolution
Read and discuss a primary Revolutionary War document or pamphlet such as the Declaration of Independence or Paine’s Common Sense, or a similarly historic newspaper account of the times.
Write an article for a newspaper, letter to an editor, such as Drumbeat, or offer an article to a historic magazine, newsletter, booklet or journal.
Join a friends of a Revolutionary War battlefield organization to preserve and protect the site.
Take a friend or child on a planned visit to a battlefield, historic house, state building or Historical Society, and discuss the site and capture the opportunities to learn and appreciate.
Learn of a gravesite of a Revolutionary War hero, clean the marker, and place a flag on/at the site on Memorial Day.
Create an online presence or website about the Revolutionary War, the founding fathers and the foundational principles which they honored by words and deeds.
Attend a criminal trial in your jurisdiction to better understand liberty and the importance of Rule of Law.
Give a Revolutionary War book as a gift this year.
Do primary research on a Revolutionary or Colonial person, place or event.
Research and transcribe, then publish, a Revolutionary War patriot’s pension statement of his service and sacrifice.
