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Jean Thurel: Ninety Years a Private Soldier

by Norman Desmarais

Jean Thurel, or Jean Theurel, is one of those very unusual people whose life extended over three centuries. He was born in Orain, Departement...

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Postwar Politics (>1783)

October 7, 2025

“The Good Old Republican Cause”: Philip Freneau’s Principled Stand against the Shadow of Monarchy

by Shawn David McGhee

Many Americans celebrated April 30, 1789, as a defining moment for the United States, a sort of political BC/AD demarcation point in the republic’s...

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Reviews

October 5, 2025

Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States

by Kyler Burd

BOOK REVIEW: Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States by Nicholas DiPucchio (University of Virginia Press, 2025) $35.00 paperback It...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

October 2, 2025

Retribution in Pennsylvania: The 1780 British Counter-Offensive to the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign

by Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick

“The Expedition of Genl Sullivan against the six nations seems by its effects to have exasperated than to have terrified or disabled them,” wrote...

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Interviews

October 1, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: G. Patrick O’Brien on the Cessation of Hostilities on the New York Frontier in 1783

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR Contributor G. Patrick O'Brien on how the news of the end of the...

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