Mercy Otis Warren was a Massachusetts writer, poet and playwright who used her pen to support the patriot cause.
In 1805 she published one of the first histories of the American Revolution.
Warren also wrote in favor of adding protections for individual rights to the new Constitution.
Read her history of the Revolution, which is available free online.
James Armistead was an enslaved man in Virginia who volunteered to spy for the American cause under the…
George Washington commanded the Continental Army throughout the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783.
The Marquis de Lafayette was a young French aristocrat who joined the American cause and became a major…
Samuel Adams was a Boston political leader who helped organize colonial resistance to British taxes.