By Taryn P. Murphy Winner, Joseph S. Rumbaugh Orations Contest 2017 SAR Magazine Summer 2017 Vol. 112 No. 1 Three loud bangs reverberate on the door. A group of men shatter the lock, bursting in without hesitation. Over the course…
An Exploration of Four Generations Attendees at the 2017 SAR Annual Conference listen as David Waldstreicher and Richard Samuelson discuss John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams after they presented their papers in the Carriage House on the grounds of…
By David Allen Lambert The Past Finder July 24, 2017 Being a genealogist I started looking at joining various hereditary societies over the years. I am honored to be a life member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati;…
Harvard Researchers Discover Second Declaration of Independence Manuscript By Mia C. Karr Crimson Staff Writer Harvard Gazette April 21, 2017 Two Harvard researchers have uncovered a second parchment manuscript of the Declaration of Independence—the only additional manuscript of its type…
Members who were actual Sons of the American Revolution The Massachusetts Society has the distinction of having had a significant number of past members who were true sons of American Revolution — their fathers actually served in the Revolutionary war.…
SAR Visiting Professor speaks at King’s College London By Michael J. Elston, President, Virginia Sons of the American Revolution SAR Magazine Winter 2017, Vol. 111, No. 3 Top, Professor O’Shaughnessy; middle, PG (2013-2014) Joe Dooley, left, discussed the Georgian Papers…
New research shows George Washington was trendier than we thought After being closed for almost two years, the Chintz Room in the Mount Vernon Mansion is reopening to the public. Thanks to the first president's detailed records and new forensic…
The oldest 13-stars-and-stripes American flag available for public view is at the Commonwealth Museum. By Steve Annear Boston Globe June 13, 2016 An important piece of Boston history has arrived for the celebration of national Flag Day this week. Beginning…
Repudiation of the Stamp Act Ryan Bass and Pat Barron, Sergeant Lawrence Everhart Chapter Maryland Society Sons of the American Revolution SAR Magazine, Fall 2015 The repudiation of the infamous Stamp Act of 1765 by the Frederick County Court sparked…
