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Aunt Flora Remembers the Irish Rebellion of 1798
byDid you see the Volunteers! Did you see the Volunteers! Marching to parade Their hearts are true Their facings blue They are six feet…
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The Lost Journal of Private Freeman Judd
byOver the years, historians have located about thirty first-hand accounts of the American expedition into Canada in the fall of 1775. These accounts detail…
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A Loyalist’s Response to the Franco-American Alliance: Charles Inglis’s “Papinian” Essays
byAt nine o’clock on the morning of May 6, 1778, Continental soldiers at Valley Forge emerged from their huts to hear their regimental chaplains…
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The Most Extraordinary Murder
byOn July 2, 1778, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hanged Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner and Continental soldier Ezra Ross, together with British soldiers Sgt. James Buchanan…
Our Man in Minorca: Lewis Littlepage, American Volunteer with the Spanish Armed Forces
byThe Revolutionary War was fought on a global scale, with six nation states engaged in battles across three continents and two oceans. Volunteers from…
The Sugar Act: A Brief History
byThe Sugar Act of 1764 levied taxes on imports to British colonies in North America. In doing so, the act marked a change in…
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Who Picked the Committees at the Constitutional Convention?
byThrough four months in the summer of 1787, passionate arguments over political principles filled the Pennsylvania State House while hard-nosed political horse-trading buzzed in…
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The Glorious Career and Unfortunate Death of John Laurens
byGeorge Washington surrounded himself with the best and the brightest young men involved in the revolutionary cause. Alexander Hamilton, Tench Tilghman, Robert Harrison, the…
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Books from the Past: A Question for JAR Contributors
byBooks are an important resource for any researcher. As approaches to the interpretation of history change and new primary source material comes to light,…
The Dorchester Heights Memorial, South Boston, and the Celebration of Evacuation Day
byOn my way to Boston’s Logan Airport a while ago a taxi driver pointed towards Boston Harbor and started telling me about a Revolutionary…
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Contributor Close-up: Eric Sterner
byEric Sterner is a writer and historian living in Northern Virginia, who has worked primarily in the fields of national security and aerospace policy…
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Dying to Celebrate
byDuring the American Revolution, hundreds of civilians and military men on both sides were killed or injured by accidents. A number of these occurred…