The American Revolution

If you want to understand the challenges and hardships involved in the early days of the American Revolution, I highly recommend the photo-essays on The Origins of American Independence, Sam Adams - Mastermind of the Revolution and Henry Knox - Washington's Favorite General. You can find them here.

Thomas Jefferson said of Sam Adams, "I always considered him more than any other member, the fountain of our more important measures." #AmericanRevolution

Three figures on left, Richard Henry Lee (VA), Sam Adams (MA) and George Clinton (NY) watch carefully as the Committee of Five hand the Declaration of Independence to John Hancock. This image is a detail of John Trumbull's, Declaration of Independence. Trumbull spent 30 years tracking down the people present to paint realistic portraits of the Signers of the Declaration. A version of this painting hangs in the rotunda of the US Capitol.