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Politics

The Dames of Philipse Manor Hall: Revolutionary Women and Illicit Dutch Tea

by William Matthews

In the late summer of 1776, a New York grocer named John Arthur encountered an unusual mounted party on a Westchester road. Roughly thirty...

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Interviews

November 10, 2026

On This Week’s Dispatches: Emelia Lehmann on David Steele’s Macabre “Medal”

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Emelia Lehmann about Virginia militiaman David Steele who carried a piece of his broken...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

November 10, 2026

The British “Experiment” to Use Loyalists in the Southern War

by Robert Ford

A hallmark of the Revolutionary War in the South was the drive by the British to use Loyalist militia to augment the British army,...

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Reviews

November 9, 2026

The Country People: An Agricultural History of the American Revolution

by Timothy Symington

BOOK REVIEW: The Country People: An Agricultural History of the American Revolution by R. Douglas Hurt. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2026) $32.95...

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Constitutional Debate

November 4, 2026

How Three Powers Became Three Branches

by Charles Lincoln

On May 15, 1776, the Second Continental Congress declared that authority under the British Crown should be suppressed and that the powers of government...

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