Breed's Hill Institute, founded by Dan Shippey, is a non-profit historical organization based in Orange, California, that provides content about the American Revolution. [1] [2] The organization, founded in 2005, [3] seeks to inform about the reasons for the revolution and to clarify historical inaccuracies. [1] More specifically, it "fosters discovery of the revolutionary ideas of the American founding through entertainment, education, and community projects." [4]
The institute is named after Breed's Hill, a hill in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts, where the fighting attributed to Bunker Hill was conducted. [1] [5] The patriots first positioned themselves on Bunker Hill, but realized that they were at a strategic advantage by fighting on Breed's Hill, where they were closer to British positions on land and to target warships in the harbor. [6] A plaque at the Bunker Hill Monument, a National Park, mentions Breed's Hill and the National Park Service uses the hashtag #BreedsHillNotBunkerHill in some of its social media posts. [1] The discrepancy is a subject in the book Wicked Pissed: New England's Most Famous Feuds by Ted Reinstein, a Boston reporter. [1]
They explore topics such as what percentage of the colonists were loyal to the British government and monarchy in "The One Third Myth". [7]