n Virginia, the American Revolution was a war, and more than a war…it was a Revolution of Ideas…

Ideas that created a nation - legal, political, military, and social;

Ideas for expressions of liberty – not only from colonists but also from enslaved people seeking freedom and Native Americans asserting sovereignty;

Ideas to ensure property rights of American colonists seeking to end excessive British taxation;

Ideas to permanently establish religious freedom;

Ideas that produced a promise of equality in the Declaration of Independence, participation in government as delineated in the Constitution, and protections defined in the Bill of Rights;

It was an unfinished revolution whose conclusion excluded many Virginians of the time, but whose documents and the ideals they express inspired disenfranchised and disempowered groups to continue to fight for their rights for the next 250 years.

Join us throughout Virginia as we commemorate the American Revolution and come together to mark 250 years since the birth of a nation and our continuing march toward a more perfect Union.