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Interviews

This Week on Dispatches: Scott Syfert on the Mecklenburg Declaration

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Scott Syfert on what we can reliably know about North Carolina's Mecklenburg Declaration even...

Autobiography and Biography

Richard Cranch, Boston Colonial Watchmaker

Richard Cranch was born on October 26, 1726, in Kingsbridge, Devon, England, the youngest of seven children.[1] The Cranch family had lived in Devon...

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,...