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Counterfeiting with Thomas Davis in the New United States: Another American Revolution

by Robert Scott Davis

The beginning of American Revolution was also the beginning of the golden age of counterfeiting paper money. The British Currency Act of 1764 so...

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Interviews

July 8, 2026

This Week on Dispatches: Ray Raphael on the First Declarations of Independence

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian, author, and JAR Editorial Board member Ray Raphael on statements of independence from Great Britain...

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Critical Thinking

July 6, 2026

Two Short Notes on The Federalist no. 9 and no. 62

by Gijs van Donselaar

In the eighteenth century, standards for decent citations, quotes, references and also for translations were less clear than they are for us, and certainly...

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Critical Thinking

July 2, 2026

Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence

by Chris Coelho

The scribe of the Declaration of Independence—and perhaps the first man to read it in public—was born on March 28, 1736 in Haddonfield, New...

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Critical Thinking

June 30, 2026

Declarations Before THE Declaration of Independence

by Ray Raphael

When the Continental Congress approved its Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, at least ninety public bodies had already declared in favor of...

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