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This Week on Dispatches: Gabriel Neville on Virginia’s Westward Land Claims

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Gabriel Neville on how before the Revolution the colony of Virginia took steps to...

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Slavery and Indentured Servitude

March 31, 2026

A Brief Introduction to the Slaving Empire of Henry Laurens

by Greg Brooking and George Burkes

Henry Laurens is recognized by scholars of revolutionary history as the president of the Second Continental Congress during the Valley Forge winter and as...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

March 26, 2026

Surprise Attack at Great Savannah

by Drew Palmer

Francis Marion has long been celebrated as one of America’s best partisan guerrilla commanders. The nature of Marion’s tactics, such as hit and run...

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Postwar Politics (>1783)

March 24, 2026

The New Dominion: Virginia’s Land in The Northwest

by Gabriel Neville

Major Abraham Kirkpatrick was not one to mince words. “There is a few of them Damned Cherokees,” he reported in July 1784, “near 40...

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Reviews

March 22, 2026

Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America

by Kelly Mielke

BOOK REVIEW: Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America by Karin Wulf (Oxford University Press, 2025). $35.00 Hardcover. In Lineage: Genealogy...

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