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Joseph Warren, Sally Edwards, and Mercy Scollay: What is the True Story?

by Janet Uhlar

Joseph Warren was the embodiment of the American colonists’ struggle to secure their rights. In 1775 he was a widowed father of four young...

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July 9, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: David Price on Abolitionist Lemuel Haynes

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR Contributor David Price on the life of Lemuel Haynes, clergyman and an abolitionist...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

July 8, 2025

The 1779 Invasion of Iroquoia: Scorched Earth as Described by Continental Soldiers

by Victor J. DiSanto

Six indigenous nations in upstate New York—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora—were joined in an alliance for mutual protection. Known as the...

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Politics During the War (1775-1783)

July 3, 2025

That Audacious Paper: Jonathan Lind and Thomas Hutchinson Answer the Declaration of Independence

by David Otersen

The Declaration of Independence is commonly revered in modern America as the aspirational apotheosis of political and social egalitarianism, although in 1776, among English...

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Economics

July 1, 2025

Supplying the Means: The Role of Robert Morris in the Yorktown Campaign

by William W. Reynolds

Many descriptions of Gen. George Washington’s crucial decision on August 14, 1781, to turn from an attack on the British in New York to...

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