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By Army History

Article published on: April 1, 2025 in the Army History Spring 2025 issue

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Four American Revolutionary War history books including Opening Shots in the Colonies, The Canadian Campaign, The Philadelphia Campaign, and Valley Forge to Monmouth

West Point Museum Receives AAM Reaccreditation

The West Point Museum, located just before the main gates of the U.S. Military Academy in New York, was reaccredited recently by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Accreditation by the AAM is the highest national recognition afforded to public and private museums. It signifies excellence to the museum community, governments, funders, outside agencies, and the museum-going public. Of the more than 33,000 museums in the United States, only about 1,100 currently are accredited. Accreditation is a rigorous process that examines all aspects of a museum’s operations, and this achievement reflects more than two years of work and preparation.

The West Point Museum collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets historically significant artifacts pertaining to the United States Military Academy, the United States Army, and the Profession of Arms. Admission is free and the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 0930 to 1615. To contact the museum, please call 845-938-3590 or email usarmy.westpoint. cmh.mbx.west-point-museum@mail.mil. Visitors can fnd more information at https://www.westpoint.edu/visitors.

New Publications from CMH

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) is publishing a series of monographs titled U.S. Army Campaigns of the Revolutionary War. Each short monograph will cover a campaign period from the war, represented on the Army fag by sixteen individual streamers. Currently, four monographs are available: Opening Shots in the Colonies, 1775–1776, The Canadian Campaign, 1775–1776, The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777, and Valley Forge to Monmouth, 1777–1778. More volumes in this series will be released in the coming months. Army units can order print editions of all these monographs from the Army Publishing Directorate online ordering portal at https://www.orderportal.army.mil. They also can be downloaded for free from the CMH website, https://history.army.mil/Revwar250/Publications-and-Videos.