Revolution Untold

Revolution Untold is a public history initiative tied to the nation's 250th anniversary, developed in partnership with the City of Williamsburg and driven by original research from W&M students. Rather than rehearsing the familiar arc of Founders, battles, and documents, the project centers the people whose revolutionary experiences have been marginalized: Indigenous nations navigating shifting alliances and sovereignty crises, enslaved and free Black people negotiating impossible choices between competing imperial powers, women whose political and economic labor sustained the war effort, and working-class colonists whose motivations rarely fit the tidy narrative of liberty and tyranny.

Student researchers sit at the heart of the work. W&M students conduct the archival and interpretive research that surfaces these overlooked stories, and the partnership with the City of Williamsburg grounds the project in the physical and civic landscape where much of this history actually unfolded, giving the scholarship a public audience and a hometown stake.

Revolution Untold is generously sponsored by the Society of 1918 at William & Mary and the Williamsburg 250 Commission, and is made possible in part by a grant from VA250 Commission in partnership with Virginia Humanities.

Revolution Untold

Revolution Untold Lunch and Learns

Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley {{youtube:large|FH_w6O0rNC0, Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley}}

James Armistead Lafayette  {{youtube:large|CXV7OSiN64U, James Armistead Lafayette}}

Clementina Rind  {{youtube:large|3o_ZtQhf8zQ, Clementina Rind}}

Anthony Roberts   {{youtube:large|dqVGpjhyQIc, Anthony Roberts}}

Robert Mursh  {{youtube:large|X1SIXt6IB_c, Robert Mursh}}

Rachel Findlay {{youtube:large|yqYHhAg8W48, Rachel Findlay}}

Mary Ashby {{youtube:large|S5DTYoukosQ, Mary Ashby}}

Lunch and Learns

During Spring 2026, Strategic Cultural Partnerships hosted a sires of Zoom-based Lunch and Learns, connecting W&M student researchers with the community to share the process and product of their ongoing work. They are available on SCP's YouTube paged, and linked below. 

Revolution Untold Lunch and Learns

Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley {{youtube:large|GneX9lebS7g, Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley with Jacob Brown}}

James Armistead Lafayette  {{youtube:large|x_JD_JcifwU, James Armistead Lafayette with Lorenzo Short}}

Clementina Rind   {{youtube:large|S4KS5vwFZnE, Clementina Rind with Eira Johnson}}

Children of the American Revolution  {{youtube:large|tlJIVK7xQdE, Children of the American Revolution with Margaret McCarthy and Abby Taliaferro}}