Culture

John Dickinson and His Letters

by Jude M. Pfister

On December 2, 1767, there appeared in the Pennsylvania Chronicle the first letter in a series collectively called “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.”...

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April 15, 2024

North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution

by Al Dickenson

BOOK REVIEW: North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution by Jeffers Lennox (Yale University Press, 2022) When...

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Critical Thinking

April 11, 2024

The Two “Empires of Liberty:” The Fascinating Story of an American Phrase

by Raphael Corletta

The description of the United States as an “Empire of Liberty” is one of the most often repeated phrases of the American founding. Long...

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Interviews

April 11, 2024

This Week on Dispatches: Selden West on a Whaleboat Fight off Connecticut

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Selden West on her research into a fight between Patriot whaleboat crews and the...

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Reviews

April 8, 2024

The War of American Independence, 1763-1783: Falling Dominoes

by Timothy Symington

BOOK REVIEW: The War of American Independence, 1763-1783: Falling Dominoes by Stanley D. M. Carpenter, Kevin J. Delamer, James R. McIntyre and Andrew T....

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