On October 13, 1775, Congress resolved to buy four merchant ships and convert them to warships. Three more ships were soon acquired. A naval...
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Recovering James Wilson's Constitutional Vision Few figures of the American founding exhibit a greater disparity between historical significance and public recognition than James Wilson....
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American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington by H. W. Brands (New York, NY: Doubleday, 2026) $40.00 hardcover. The prolific historian H. W. Brands...
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Revolutionary patriotic songs did not always remain fixed after entering circulation. Soldiers, civilians, and families copied and performed them in manuscripts and other informal...
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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor and historian Davis Richardson about the correspondence between the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas...
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VDHR historians do not research every historical marker. This is usually done...
I wanted to issue a short correction. In the article, I stated...