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Special Limited Print Edition in the Works
byGet your holiday shopping lists ready. A very special limited PRINT edition of Journal of the American Revolution will be available to our readers…
June, 2013
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A Yankee Doodle Dinner
byMost of us learned the song “Yankee Doodle Dandy” as schoolchildren, and many of us puzzled over the reference to macaroni in its lyrics. …
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12 Questions with T. H. Breen
byI recently asked our readers via Facebook who they’d most like to see interviewed next and T.H. Breen was among the handful of historians…
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“Intolerable Acts”
byI started with an innocent question about the British Parliament’s Quartering Act of 1774: Did American Patriots list that law as one of the…
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Chaos in the Backcountry: Battle of Ninety Six
byA Frontier Crossroads Today a remote and quiet corner of South Carolina, Ninety Six was once a bustling center of activity, and one of…
Mary Silliman’s War
byIn January I made a list of the 10 best, in my opinion, Revolutionary War films. I neglected to include a film that deserves…
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Fort Halifax: One Stop on the Way to Quebec
byOn Sunday, September 28, 1975, six hundred Revolutionary War reenactors appeared in Winslow, Maine. Some paddled the eighteen miles up the Kennebec River from…
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“Light Horse Harry” Lee and Pyle’s Massacre
byOn February 25, 1781, the Continental cavalry of Lieutenant Colonel Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee’s Legion and Brigadier Andrew Pickens’s militia encountered several hundred…
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Bunker Hill Monument and Memory
byYesterday marked the 170th anniversary of the commemoration of the Bunker Hill Monument. It took the Bunker Hill Monument Association, thousands of individual donors,…
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The Whites of their Eyes
byMyth: During the so-called Battle of Bunker Hill, Israel Putnam (some say William Prescott) issued a command: “Do not fire till you see the…
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A Pennsylvania Dutch Meal
byThis time, we’re going to visit the farm country of Pennsylvania, settled by German-speaking immigrants who formed a fairly cohesive community starting in the…
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My Adventure Finding a Lost Newspaper
byWhile curating the collection of American Revolution newspapers featured in Reporting the Revolutionary War, I stumbled upon a rare 18th century American newspaper loaded…
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General Gold Silliman: Snatched from Home
bySometime around midnight on May 1, 1779, British soldiers smashed through the wooden door of General Gold Selleck Silliman’s Fairfield, Connecticut home. They snatched…
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Bennington Fatally Delays Burgoyne
byA bit of time in the summer of 1777 nearly turned the conception of a United States into a stillborn notion. It is commonly…
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Benson Lossing: Historical Tourist
byWhen studying the American Revolution, there are several books that provide an overview of the events and people of that epic period in American…
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Rapid-fire Q&A with Gordon S. Wood
byGoogle Gordon S. Wood and you’ll find dozens of well-earned introductions: One of the foremost scholars on the American Revolution… One of the most…
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Mrs. Middleton Takes Prisoners
byQuestions about the validity of the Molly Pitcher legend bring up a broader gap in our understanding of military affairs during the era of…
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Alexander Hamilton, Dangerous Man
byDear Mr. History: Everyone knows Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury, and let’s be honest, this nation is more of his…
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Francis Marion at the Battle of Eutaw Springs
bySeptember 8, 1781 Francis Marion is best known for his leadership in the partisan war of 1780-1781, during which he and his volunteer militia…
Mrs. Byrd’s “Affair at Westover”
byIn traveling upriver on his raid to Richmond in early January 1781, General Benedict Arnold disembarked his army at Westover on the James River…