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Conflict & War

An Enemy at the Gates: The Tragedy of Abraham Carlile

by Robert N. Fanelli

Though Quakers were admonished by their religious leaders to remain neutral and refrain from participation in the American Revolution, some did lend active support...

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Reviews

February 23, 2026

Siege: The Canadian Campaign in the American Revolution, 1775-1776

by Gabriel Neville

BOOK REVIEW: Siege: The Canadian Campaign in the American Revolution, 1775-1776 by Donald Grady Shomette (Heritage Books, 2025) Two volumes, paperback, $77.00 In its...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

February 19, 2026

The Sieges of Fort Morris, Georgia

by Douglas R. Dorney, Jr.

The two sieges of Fort Morris have remained comparatively obscure events in the historiography of the 1778 British invasion of Georgia. Overshadowed by the...

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Interviews

February 18, 2026

This Week on Dispatches: Scott Syfert on the Mecklenburg Declaration

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Scott Syfert on what we can reliably know about North Carolina's Mecklenburg Declaration even...

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Autobiography and Biography

February 15, 2026

Richard Cranch, Boston Colonial Watchmaker

by Andrew H. Dervan

Richard Cranch was born on October 26, 1726, in Kingsbridge, Devon, England, the youngest of seven children.[1] The Cranch family had lived in Devon...

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