Revolutionary Lives Project

The American Revolution has its pantheon. But just ask someone to name people from the war and see how many they come up with. They would probably be mostly the usual suspects, and they could probably all fit into George Washington's tent. Hence the Revolutionary Lives Project.

Fifty years ago, to commemorate the Bicentennial, The New York Times published facsimile editions of dozens of long-out-of-print texts from the War for Independence. The series title was Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution, and it recovered the lost voices of a vast array of characters: men and women, officers and soldiers, sailors and civilians and prisoners, on both sides of the war. Even today, the accounts retain their capacity to surprise the reader. The Revolutionary Lives Project highlights volumes in the Eyewitness series through interpretive essays focusing on individual volumes.

New essays will be added as they become available.

Photo Credit: Soldiers in Uniform, Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger, 1781

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