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Announcing the 2025 JAR Book of the Year Award!

Since 2014, the Journal of the American Revolution has recognized the new adult nonfiction volume that best mirrors the mission of the journal with...

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Critical Thinking

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: The Present Status of the Controversy

May 2025 will bring the 250th anniversary of a unique if obscure Revolutionary war event in Charlotte, North Carolina: the much beloved, much maligned,...

Reviews

Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England

BOOK REVIEW: Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England by Gloria McCahon Whiting. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press,...

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Prisoners of War

The Monmouth County Gaol and the Jailbreak of February 1781

As the Revolutionary War began, the fledgling Continental and state governments were faced the huge burden of holding and provisioning thousands of captured enemy...