Top 10 Articles of September 2017
byThis September we welcomed two new writers—Bradley Sussner and Tom Shachtman—and published a flurry of fascinating articles. We are all anxiously awaiting the publication of our…
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Roger Sherman: The Only Man Who Signed All Four Founding Documents
byThomas Jefferson stood outside the halls of congress late one afternoon. And with the hand that penned the Declaration of Independence, he pointed across…
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The Widow’s Apron: Life, Death, and a Forgotten Skirmish Along the Old Blackstock Road
byThis is the story, such as it can be told, of one long forgotten woman in the midst of the revolutionary war, a weaver…
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James Lafayette (James Armistead), American Spy
byJust as Nathan Hale is the best known spy of the American Revolution, so James Lafayette is the best known African-American spy of the…
Benjamin Franklin’s Mission to London, 1757-1762
byThomas Penn, the son of founder William Penn, inherited majority control of the proprietorship of the colony of Pennsylvania in 1746. At the time…
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The Dog Head Sword of Succasunna: Forgotten Family Patriots and Loyalists in the Revolutionary War
byBook Review: The Dog Head Sword of Succasunna: Forgotten Family Patriots and Loyalists in the Revolutionary War by John Lawrence Brasher (Shelby Printing, 2016) [BUY NOW…
Unknown and forgotten: James Hogun
byGenerals appointed by the Continental Congress often owed their commissions to their state of residence as the congressmen tried to ensure that the rank…
Commodore Lewis/Louis Warrington, France’s Revolutionary Gift to America
byWhile France and the United States have always exchanged gifts representative of their support of democratic ideals, not all the gifts were between statesman…
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Patient Hero: John Henry and the Earliest American Account of Posttraumatic Stress
byIn 1871, Jacob Mendes Da Costa published a study of a condition he termed “Irritable Heart” that described a series of symptoms observed among…
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The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Ticonderoga Vendetta
byLt. Col. Anthony Walton White of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment had a very rocky 1776. His service was peppered with several episodes more…
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A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain’s Revolutionary War Heritage
byBook Review: A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain’s Revolutionary War Heritage by Philip Lundeberg, Arthur Cohn, Jennifer Jones, et al. (Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and the…
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Terror on the Frontier: The Grim Ordeal of Delilah Corbly
byMore often than not, the horrific realities of warfare are shielded by bland accounts and cold statistics. When it comes to the Revolutionary War,…
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Thomas Jefferson, the American Revolution, and the Creation of a Republican World
byIn popular understandings of the three Atlantic Revolutions of late eighteenth century, the American Revolution (1765-1783) is often regarded as the least radical and…
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The French Bread Connection
byIt was the letter that forced Washington to give up his dream of recapturing New York. Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau,…
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A Fresh Look at Major Patrick Ferguson
byIn the prior year there have been several articles in the Journal of the American Revolution reappraising certain participants involved with the southern campaign….
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Fire and Desolation: The Revolutionary War’s 1778 Campaign as Waged from Quebec and Niagara Against the American Frontiers
byBook Review: Fire and Desolation: The Revolutionary War’s 1778 Campaign as Waged from Quebec and Niagara Against the American Frontiers by Gavin K. Watt…
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Unfriendly to America? The Two Sides of Jacob Rogers
byJacob Rogers was scared. So scared, in fact, that he—a Loyalist and former lieutenant in the Royal Navy—traveled twelve miles to the Continental Army…
Tested Loyalties and Sense of Obligation: Two Maine Men and the American Revolution
byWhat do an American Revolution prisoner of war accused of being a spy, a first born scion of an established wealthy New England family,…
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America’s First Black Ops
byPierre-Augustin de Caron, better known by his stage name, Beaumarchais, was a French playwright, financier, and confidant of King Louis XVI. In the spring…
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Strong Ground: Mount Independence and the American Revolution
byBook Review: Strong Ground: Mount Independence and the American Revolution by Donald H. Wickman and The Mount Independence Coalition (The Mount Independence Coalition, 2017) [BUY NOW]…