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Abigail Adams and Smallpox Inoculation during the Revolution
by Stephanie DrayOn a Friday morning in 1764, a nineteen-year-old Abigail Smith sent some tobacco to her betrothed: one John Adams esquire, a country lawyer from...
READ MOREOn a Friday morning in 1764, a nineteen-year-old Abigail Smith sent some tobacco to her betrothed: one John Adams esquire, a country lawyer from...
READ MOREBOOK REVIEW: New Hampshire and Independence: Rediscovered Writings from the Sons of the American Revolution edited by William Edmund Fahey (Charleston, SC: History Press,...
READ MOREJohn Trumbull of Connecticut today is rightfully famous as a painter of Revolutionary War scenes. Some of his best paintings were enlarged by him...
READ MOREOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Drew Palmer on how Francis Marion's daring raid on the Great Savannah in 1780,...
READ MOREAlthough the Revolutionary War was winding down by the year 1782, there was still raiding across Long Island Sound between the British-Loyalists forces on...
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