Top 10 Articles of June 2015
byJournal of the American Revolution kicked off summer 2015 with a fun group interview and several short features about important primary sources. This source…
Journal of the American Revolution kicked off summer 2015 with a fun group interview and several short features about important primary sources. This source…
The British government’s policies toward the American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s were controversial in Great Britain; some people favored the government’s actions…
One of the newspapers featured in Reporting the Revolutionary War was the Virginia Gazette dated August 26, 1775. In the book, Don N. Hagist…
From Bunker Hill to Yorktown, a feature of military actions during the American Revolution was the redoubt. Of course, redoubts were a fixture in…
Maps are vital to understanding campaigns and battles. During the American Revolution, military planners often lamented the lack of good maps and went to…
From mid-August to early October, 1774, huge crowds gathered in the “shiretowns” of every county in contiguous, mainland Massachusetts (except Suffolk, where Boston is…
Cartoons were a vital part of England’s print media in the 1770s, and were almost exclusively of the sort that today we call editorial…
Armies thrived on paperwork. With huge amounts of information to be recorded and tracked, non-commissioned officers and soldiers with good literacy, skill at basic…
In the late summer and early fall of 1774, all of Massachusetts outside of Boston shed British rule. From October 1774 to April 1775,…
One of the most famous and recognizable eighteenth-century newspapers is the October 31, 1765 issue of the Pennsylvania Journal, also known as the “tombstone…
Outside of the big four (Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Charleston), which city was most critical to the success of the Revolution? Why? …
What impact did British involvement elsewhere in the world have on operations in North America? Explain. As brilliantly told in Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s…
A lot has been written about the greatest writers and orators of the Revolution, but effective communication also requires good listening. Who was the…
During the protracted conflict, nations, colonies, committees and individuals had several opportunities to learn from their mistakes. In your opinion, what is the best…
Which Revolutionary artifact do you wish was mistakenly delivered to your doorstep rather than the curator of a museum? Washington’s draft of The…
The next several weeks will be a short break from the usual content featured at Journal of the American Revolution, so we wanted to…
We are having a blast working with our contributors and Westholme Publishing to produce collectible hardbacks in 2015 and beyond, and we can’t wait…
When researching the Revolutionary War one is constantly keeping an eye out for primary source materials. Some of those sources are the very same…
On June 8th, 1783, Gen. George Washington issued the following orders to the Continental army from his headquarters in Newburgh, New York: Serjeant Bissel…
About Michael Schellhammer: Michael Schellhammer is a former U.S. Army infantry, intelligence, and civil affairs officer. He served in the Persian Gulf War, Haiti,…