Author: Michael Tuosto

Michael Tuosto is from Montgomery, New Jersey. He graduated from Quinnipiac University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in History. After nearly three years in the financial services industry he could no longer ignore his passion for history, law, and politics. He is currently pursuing a law degree at Emory University School of Law. His insatiable appetite for knowledge about the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers, and America’s founding principles stems from the regularity with which public officials reference this period in history.

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Abductions in the American Revolution

Book review: Abductions in the American Revolution: Attempts to Kidnap George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Other Military and Civilian Leaders by Christian McBurney (McFarland, April 2016) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON] It is always exciting when historians innovate new ways to write about the American Revolution.  The dual biographies that focus on the relationship between two […]

by Michael Tuosto
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The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America

Book Review: The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America by Paul B. Moyer (Cornell University Press, 2015) [BUY ON AMAZON] Paul Moyer’s The Public Universal Friend explores the history of a particular sectarian movement in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.  The connection to the American Revolution seems tenuous […]

by Michael Tuosto