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GONE FISHIN’: RETURNING JANUARY 2
byAfter another busy and exciting year, Journal of the American Revolution is taking a vacation to tackle a few other projects. Look for us again on…
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New JAR Series Book Just Published, Next JAR Series Title Announced!
byThe Journal of the American Revolution Book Series officially launched in 2016 with two books, Grand Forage 1778 and The Road to Concord. Between Amazon, Barnes…
Fishermen and Foxhunters: Washington’s “Gentlemen of Fortune”
byBefore Lexington and Concord, before there was any need for an army, and before men found themselves beholden to the dictates of military service…
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The Revolutionary War in the south: Re-evaluations of certain revolutionary actors and events
byThis article provides a wide-ranging set of re-evaluations compartmentalised under the sub-headings below and placed in the context of the historiography relating to them. …
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1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga
byBook review: 1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga by Dean Snow (Oxford University Press, October, 2016) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON] I can hear it now—“Another book…
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The “P” is for Profit: Revolutionary War Privateers and the Slave Trade
byThe American Revolutionary War was fought largely by armies on the North American continent, however, like waves in a pond the conflict inevitably rippled…
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Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution
byBook review: Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution by Robert F. Smith (Westholme Publishing, August 2016) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON] In his 1961…
Top 10 Articles of November 2016
byAs we settle in for our November recap, we pause to express our sincere gratitude. We are thankful for our many writers, readers and…
Last Call! Order Deadlines for Revolutionary Gifts
byDecember is almost here! If you’re planning to order something special from the Journal of the American Revolution gift shop, please keep these rapidly approaching…
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Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time
byBook review: Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time by Robert M.S. McDonald (University of Virginia Press, August 2016). [BUY NOW ON…
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Abigail Hartman Rice, Revolutionary War Nurse
byThe lives of the Revolutionary era’s extraordinary women have long been celebrated. At historic sites throughout our country, visitors can learn the stories of…
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War on the Middleline
byBook review: War on the Middleline: The Founding of a Community In the Kayaderosseras Patent In the Midst of the American Revolution by James E….
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2016 Revolutionary War Geek Gift Guide
byIt’s that time of year again – time to let Journal of the American Revolution solve all your holiday gift-giving conundrums. Here are our…
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The Remarkable Spanish Pilgrimage of John Adams
byThe ship carrying John Adams was sinking in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! The awful thought must have been crippling for Adams, chosen…
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The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Ill-Fated Patrol
byIn the summer of 1776, the restored Fort Stanwix (renamed as Fort Schuyler) sat on what was the western edge of civilization in present…
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The Revolutionary War in the south: Re-evaluations of certain British and British American actors
byPrefatory remarks Wide-ranging and to some degree disparate as they are, my re-evaluations are, on the one hand, compartmentalized under the sub-headings set out…
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Revolutionary Delaware: Independence in the First State
byBook review: Revolutionary Delaware: Independence in the First State by Kim Rogers Burdick (History Press, November 2016) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON] There needs to…
Benjamin Franklin and Judaism
byThough not always able to offer definitive evidence of a link between the two men, since the nineteenth century Jewish scholars have affirmed that…
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The Revolution told by one of the Navy’s Greatest Ships
byThe importance of the maritime history of the American Revolution is often overlooked. Most of the war was fought on land, and what few…
Rochambeau’s Arrest
byThe French army was returning from Yorktown, Virginia in 1782 on their way to Newport and Boston. Lt. Gen. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur…
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The Winter of His Discontent: Casimir Pulaski’s Resignation as Commander of Horse
byCasimir Pulaski, an exiled Polish nobleman, through the influence of well-placed individuals in the French Court and based on his experience as the de…
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Society at Auction: Coffee-House Culture in Occupied New York
byIn 1779, three years into the British occupation of New York during the American Revolution, a man returned to the city to “attend the…
The Three Letters that determined the Campaign to Yorktown
byIn the spring of 1781, Washington’s army was small (he would report on July 15 that he had only 5,835 rank and file); “the…
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“The Celebrated and Notorious” Ned Turner
byDeep in South Carolina’s back country the Loyalist world came apart in the fall of 1781. British occupation ended with their retreat into the…
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Thomas Paine, Deism, and the Masonic Fraternity
byThomas Paine’s close associations with famous Freemasons in America, England, and France have not only frequently been taken as evidence that he was a…
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American Revolutions: A Continental History
byBook review: American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton and Company, 2016). [BUY BOOK ON AMAZON] Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale of a…
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The Mythology of Stony Point
byThe American War for Independence, like any great historical episode, has its share of legends and mythology. The period from 1775 to 1783, perhaps…
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Joseph Addison’s Cato: Liberty on the Stage
byThe study of ancient Greece and Rome was a significant part of upper class education in Colonial and Revolutionary America. The founders were familiar…
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The ABC’s of the Valley Forge Encampment
bySix months of struggle shaped into twenty-six characters. A – Arrival The Continental Army under Gen. George Washington trudged into Valley Forge on December…
Top Articles of October 2016
byJAR had another busy few weeks welcoming three new writers — Gregory J. W. Urwin, Alex Colvin, C. E. Pippenger —and making great progress on our…
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Drunk and Disorderly: The Dreadful Havoc of Spirituous Liquors
byDrink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.[1] Valley Forge. For most Americans, the very name of the Pennsylvania…
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Hector Maclean: The Writings of a Loyalist-Era Military Settler in Nova Scotia
byBook review: Hector Maclean: The Writings of a Loyalist-Era Military Settler in Nova Scotia by Jo Currie, Keith Mercer, John G. Reid (Gaspereau Press, 2015)…
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The Worthy but Troubled Continental Service of Capt. Barent J. Ten Eyck
byWith the clash of arms that began the American Revolution, Capt. Barent J. Ten Eyck, of the Albany County Militia, served as courier for…
Washington Heeds Jeney, Takes Trenton
byAttacking at night, during a snowstorm: genius or folly? For Gen. Richard Montgomery at Quebec on December 31, 1775, it was a fatal disaster,…
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How Yorktown Almost Couldn’t Afford to Happen
byGen. George Washington, from the point of view of Americans being trapped at “York,”[1] wrote these prophetic words- These by being upon a narrow…
Election Fraud and Voter Suppression: 18th-century Style
byThere was certainly no love lost between two of the three Virginia gentlemen from Prince William County who stood for office in the county’s…
Hezekiah Munsell Goes to War with the Connecticut Militia
byIn the spring of 1841, a correspondent from the Hartford Courant went to East Windsor, Connecticut looking for an elderly man who was a…
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With Cornwallis to the Dan: Deconstructing the “Forbes Champagné Letter”
byThe American War of Independence produced many dramatic episodes, but none surpassed the campaign that Lt. Gen. Charles, Second Earl Cornwallis, conducted in North…
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Continental Generals: Backgrounds and Fates
byOn the pages of the Journal of the American Revolution there have been articles on the best and worst generals of the Revolutionary War….