The New Books Are Coming, The New Books Are Coming

We love the smell of freshly printed books. Following a brief distribution delay, retailers are processing orders of the much-anticipated Journal of the American Revolution: Annual Volume 2016 as well as Todd Braisted’s Grand Forage 1778. Look for the reprint of our 2015 volume and J. L. Bell’s The Road to Concord in the weeks ahead as they will be shipping from the printer any day now. Oh, and we will be announcing our next book series book soon, so stay tuned. Going strong in our fourth year, JAR is much more than an online magazine. We are proudly serving up and dishing out a healthy menu of Revolutionary War books to feed our readers’ voracious appetites. See the list of new book suggestions below.

While you have your wallet open to purchase new books, please consider making a small donation to protect and sustain JAR. Much like Wikipedia, we provide a valued public service for those interested in thinking, learning and sharing knowledge about the American Revolution. In fact, JAR has grown to be one of the most important sources of American Revolution studies, publishing nearly 800 articles by 120+ writers and attracting more than 1 million readers a year. Unfortunately, that growth comes with increased costs. Rather than adding more advertising or looking for new commerce opportunities, we are simply asking our readers to consider making a donation—$5, $20, $50 or whatever you can afford—to keep JAR going strong for years to come. Thank you for your loyal readership and support.

JAR Annual Volumes

• Journal of the American Revolution: Volume 1
• Journal of the American Revolution: Annual Volume 2015
• Journal of the American Revolution: Annual Volume 2016 

JAR Book Series

• Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City by Todd W. Braisted
• The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War by J. L. Bell

JAR Book Award Winners

• 2015 (winner) Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal (Random House, 2015)
• 2015 (honorable mention) The Spirit of ’74: How the American Revolution Began by Ray Raphael and Marie Raphael (New Press, 2015)
• 2015 (honorable mention) After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence by Don Glickstein (Westholme, 2015)
• 2014 (winner) Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities During the War for Independence by Ken Miller (Cornell University Press, 2014)
• 2014 (honorable mention) An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker (Knopf, 2014)
• 2014 (honorable mention) Inventing Ethan Allen by John J. Duffy and H. Nicholas Muller III (University Press of New England, 2014)

Books by JAR Contributors

• Dozens to picks from — see a list of some of our favorites

Recent JAR Book Reviews

• Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America by Stephen F. Knott and Tony Williams
• The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich
• Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War by John A. Ruddiman
• Rutgers v. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review by Peter Charles Hoffer
• George Washington’s Journey: The President Forges a New Nation by T. H. Breen
• And many, many more

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