Politics

The Struggle for Stability: The 1787 Federal Convention

by Jane Sinden Spiegel

The Articles of Confederation provided inadequate funding and guidance for the thirteen colonies during the American Revolution. After six years of fighting, the war...

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Interviews

March 27, 2024

This Week on Dispatches: Gerald Krieger on British Miscalculation of Loyalist Support in the American South

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR contributor Gerald Krieger on his research into how the British miscalculated their support...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

March 26, 2024

The Marquis de Lafayette in Delaware

by Kim Burdick

The last surviving major general of the American Revolution was French aristocrat Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, the marquis de Lafayette....

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Reviews

March 25, 2024

Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Nichole Louise

BOOK REVIEW: Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Chloe Wigston Smith (Yale University Press) Novels, Needleworks, and Empire:...

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People

March 21, 2024

The Physical Challenges of Major General Nathanael Greene

by Salina B. Baker

The American Revolution provides heroes like almost no other event in American history. In a society where most of us live in comfort, with...

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