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Joseph Warren, Sally Edwards, and Mercy Scollay: What is the True Story?
by Janet UhlarJoseph Warren was the embodiment of the American colonists’ struggle to secure their rights. In 1775 he was a widowed father of four young...
READ MOREJoseph Warren was the embodiment of the American colonists’ struggle to secure their rights. In 1775 he was a widowed father of four young...
READ MOREOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR Contributor David Price on the life of Lemuel Haynes, clergyman and an abolitionist...
READ MORESix indigenous nations in upstate New York—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora—were joined in an alliance for mutual protection. Known as the...
READ MOREThe Declaration of Independence is commonly revered in modern America as the aspirational apotheosis of political and social egalitarianism, although in 1776, among English...
READ MOREMany descriptions of Gen. George Washington’s crucial decision on August 14, 1781, to turn from an attack on the British in New York to...
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