Virginia Directs Congressional Delegation to Initiate Independence
Several days of heated debate in Williamsburg at the First Virginia Convention result in an instruction to Virginia's representatives in the Continental Congress to introduce a resolution declaring independence from Great Britain.
See the events in Williamsburg and other cities that created a revolutionary movement.
Follow the ways that religion informed revolutionary thought.
From clothing to theater, trace the impact of taste on empire and revolution.
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