On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Novia Liu on her examination of John Adams’s Defence of the Constitutions of Government of…
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When the fighting between the British and American forces broke out on April 19, 1775, just one month prior to the start of the…
BOOK REVIEW: The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War by Des Ekin (Essex,…
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In researching one of the many projects I have in train, I ran across the Federal Pension Application file of Caleb Brewster. With all…
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Colin Zimmerman on the strategic contest for Burlington, New Jersey, in the run up to…
Lucy and Henry Knox experienced the American Revolution at its very center. Growing up in Boston, the couple had fallen in love and married…
BOOK REVIEW: Revolutionary Blacks, Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence by Shirley L. Green (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2023) This captivating…
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Al Dickenson on Samuel McColloch’s “Great Leap,” one of the tall tales of the American…
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Substantial numbers of British and Hessian troops needed to be housed in New York City and across Long Island during the years of the…
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Count Carl Emil von Donop was at the pinnacle of his military career as his corps of Hessians marched victoriously south into New Jersey…
An important issue that the Congressional delegates faced when drafting the Constitution was how to create an equitable balance in voting rights between the…
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BOOK REVIEW: Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic by Michael A. Blaakman (Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) The mark of…
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Today’s Americans revere the Founding Fathers as egalitarian exceptions within the eighteenth century’s hierarchical world. Yet, these men were neither uniform nor wholly democratic…
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR Books author Abby Chandler on her research into the Stamp Act Riots in Rhode…
With a group of forty cavalrymen, Maj. Samuel McColloch rode to the aid of Fort Henry, near Wheeling, Virginia. It was September 1, 1777,…
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The din of passing cars and semi-trucks jockeying for position as lanes converge ahead rises above the rattle of leaves clinging to the branches…
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Just prior to the start of hostilities in the American Revolution, and even early on in those battles, last-minute efforts were made in many…
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Several years ago, I set out to understand the movements of the British army through Delaware and into Pennsylvania in early September 1777. It…
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During the three months that the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was on holiday from August to November 1773, the…
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America’s early finances were, in a word, messy. The states took on enormous debt to fund the Revolutionary War while the national government chartered…
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If one looked into Benjamin Franklin’s time on Craven Street, they might initially believe he lived at 36 Craven Street the entirety of his…
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How do you define “Founding Fathers”? You can define it either broadly or narrowly. By consensus, most historians limit the narrow definition to six….
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Which side do you think benefited the most from the Native American involvement in the war? Why? The British benefited the most, from one…
Review of the Broadway musical Hamilton, now playing at the Richard Rodgers Theater on 46th Street in New York City. Let me confess at…
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Learning that one of the most acclaimed military writers of our time has turned his narrative expertise towards the American Revolution is exciting news…
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Loyalists, those Americans who openly supported the British Government during the American Revolution, have been largely assumed to have had unchanging allegiance during the…
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On March 26, 1772, The Massachusetts Spy ran an unusual item on page 3 of that day’s newspaper: an advertisement for a dramatic performance of…
On this week’s Dispatches, we are broadcasting host Brady Crytzer’s presentation at the Fort Plain Museum conference on Sir William Johnson and the Wars…
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The American Revolution came as a fire storm. No section of America was untouched or unaltered. The British Colonists who were in open rebellion…
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR contributor Brooke Barbier on her new book, King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a…
