- The Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center
420 High Street
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101
Registration is now open for the 2026 SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution.
The topic of this year's SAR Annual Conference is "All Men are Created Equal: Freedom, Slavery, and Race in the American Revolution".
The conference will be held on May 29-31, 2026, at The Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center in Winston-Salem, NC.
In his 1776 essay "Liberty Further Extended", Lemuel Haynes denied that “Liberty is so contracted a principle as to be Confin’d to any nation under Heaven; nay, I think it not hyperbolical to affirm, that Even an African, has Equally as good a right to his Liberty in common with Englishmen.” This Black patriot and soldier connected freedom, citizenship, and nation. How actors in the American Revolution experienced, articulated, or contested these ideas is the question that drives this conference. "All Men Are Created Equal" will examine perspectives from Black and White men and women aligned with the Patriots or Loyalists. The conference will also invite comparisons between the young United States and the broader revolutionary Atlantic World.
The 2026 SAR Distinguished Scholar is John A. Ruddiman of Wake Forest University. "All Men Are Created Equal" shall be dedicated to Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University.