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…
As we settle in for our November recap, we pause to express our sincere gratitude. We are thankful for our many writers, readers and…
December 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…
Book 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…
The lives of the Revolutionary era’s extraordinary women have long been celebrated. At historic sites throughout our country, visitors can learn the stories of…
Book review: War on the Middleline: The Founding of a Community In the Kayaderosseras Patent In the Midst of the American Revolution by James E….
It’s that time of year again – time to let Journal of the American Revolution solve all your holiday gift-giving conundrums. Here are our…
The ship carrying John Adams was sinking in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! The awful thought must have been crippling for Adams, chosen…
In the summer of 1776, the restored Fort Stanwix (renamed as Fort Schuyler) sat on what was the western edge of civilization in present…
Prefatory 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…
Book review: Revolutionary Delaware: Independence in the First State by Kim Rogers Burdick (History Press, November 2016) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON] There needs to…
Though not always able to offer definitive evidence of a link between the two men, since the nineteenth century Jewish scholars have affirmed that…
The importance of the maritime history of the American Revolution is often overlooked. Most of the war was fought on land, and what few…
The French army was returning from Yorktown, Virginia in 1782 on their way to Newport and Boston. Lt. Gen. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur…
Casimir Pulaski, an exiled Polish nobleman, through the influence of well-placed individuals in the French Court and based on his experience as the de…
In 1779, three years into the British occupation of New York during the American Revolution, a man returned to the city to “attend the…
In 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…
Deep in South Carolina’s back country the Loyalist world came apart in the fall of 1781. British occupation ended with their retreat into the…
Thomas Paine’s close associations with famous Freemasons in America, England, and France have not only frequently been taken as evidence that he was a…
Book 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…
The American War for Independence, like any great historical episode, has its share of legends and mythology. The period from 1775 to 1783, perhaps…
The study of ancient Greece and Rome was a significant part of upper class education in Colonial and Revolutionary America. The founders were familiar…
Six months of struggle shaped into twenty-six characters. A – Arrival The Continental Army under Gen. George Washington trudged into Valley Forge on December…