Our Patriots DAR Podcast
1) DAR: Tobias Lear
Tobias Lear: Tobias Lear served as personal aide and private secretary to George Washington from 1786 to 1799. He was present at the First President’s death and controversially handled Washington’s pa...Show More
2) DAR: Elias Boudinot
Elias Boudinot: Statesman Elias Boudinot served as New Jersey’s delegate to the Continental Congress. After the Revolution, he served as its Congressman and then was appointed Director of the U.S. Min...Show More
3) DAR: John Trumbull
John Trumbull was an artist known for paintings of people and events in the American Revolution. Serving in the Continental Army in the early months of the conflict, he went on to create famous histor...Show More
4) DAR: Revolutionary War Women
Studies taken from the pages of American Spirit Magazine. Learn more about Phyllis Wheatley and the Brewster Sisters.
5) DAR:Reviving the Memory of Our Marquis-America Celebrates the 250th Birthday of Marquis de Lafayette
His decision went against his family’s and his country’s wishes, but it turned out to be a fortuitous one for the Patriots. Lafayette played a key role in securing America’s independence from England ...Show More
6) DAR: George Wythe
Legal scholar and teacher George Wythe influenced such figures as Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and James Monroe with his brilliant mind and Enlightenment views on government and the law. He was del...Show More
7) DAR: George Mason
George Mason was an important Virginia statesman known for his writing of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which called for guaranteed liberties for the people and served as a model for the America...Show More
8) DAR: Prison Ship Martyrs
The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in New York honors over 15,000 Americans who were held captive on British ships during the Revolution. Twice as many soldiers died in these conditions than in the batt...Show More
9) DAR: Oneida Nation
Members of the Oneida American Indian nation served as scouts, guides, and soldiers in New York during the Revolution, including critically in the Battle of Saratoga. They earned recognition from the ...Show More
10) DAR: Alexander Hamilton’s Controversial Vision of American Greatness
In the earliest years of the U.S. government, the man whom many considered the second-most powerful man in the nation was neither a landowning Southern gentleman nor an experienced Northern statesman....Show More