This Week on Dispatches: George Kotlik on Texas and the American Revolution
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR contributor George Kotlik on Texas’s contributions to the Patriot cause. Throughout the latter…
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The 2020 JAR Book-of-the-Year
byThe Journal of the American Revolution is pleased to announce The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) as winner of…
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Why Yorktown? Yorktown in Human and Geological Time
byWritten human history only dates back a few thousand years while geologic time is often measured in tens or hundreds of millions of years….
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Partly National, Partly Federal: James Madison, the Amphictyonic Confederacy, and the Republican Balance
byFollowing the Constitutional Convention’s completion of the United States Constitution in the Fall of 1787, many of those involved in its creation embarked on…
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Following Paul Revere Home: The Demolition and Preservation of Boston’s Landmarks
byHere’s one of the things I love most about Boston: If it were possible to drop Paul Revere in downtown today, he could, quite…
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Review: To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan
byTo the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan by Andrew Waters (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2020)…
This Week on Dispatches: Brian Gerring on “La Petite Guerre” and Native American Irregular Warfare
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews retired Special Forces soldier and educator Brian Gerring on his comparison of European La Petite Guerre, “small…
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Thou Shalt Not Steal: Plunder, Theft, and Sticky Fingers
by“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”[1] It had been less than three months since Congress had adopted a…
Review: All at Sea: Naval Support for the British Army During the American Revolution
byAll At Sea: Naval Support for the British Army During the American Revolutionary War by John Dillon. (Warwick, England: Helion & Company Limited, 2019) The…
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The Most Unlucky Man: Patrick Ferguson’s Early Years
byInto a house at 333 High Street in what is now Edinburgh’s “Old Town” was born the strange adventurer Patrick Ferguson on June 4, 1744.[1] The…
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African Americans in the American Revolution
byEditor’s note: Originally published in JAR in May 2013, this important article about the contribution of African Americans to our nation’s liberty was written…
This Week on Dispatches: Greg Aaron on Lord Dartmouth’s War of Words
byDispatches returns for another season, and on this week’s episode host Brady Crytzer interviews cybersecurity expert and JAR contributor Greg Aaron on Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of…
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The British Naval Signals Missions of 1781
byRichard Peters’ letter of October 19, 1781, to Gen. George Washington mentioned two missions to obtain copies of certain British naval signals and convey…
Review: Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution
byNoble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution by Don Hagist. Foreword by Rick Atkinson. (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2020) Back in the…
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Congress’s “Committee on Spies” and the Court-Martial Policies of General Washington
byIn the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already hard at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the…
The Finalists for the 2020 JAR Book-of-the-Year Award
byThe pandemic of 2020 caused disruption and delays in the publishing industry just as it did to so many other facets of the global…
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Plight of the Seamen: Incarceration, Escape, or Secured Freedom
byDuring the Revolutionary War, the British were particularly sensitive to challenges to their maritime sovereignty. Members of the Continental Navy, states’ navy sailors or…
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Contributor Question: My Favorite Year
byWith the start of a new year, this month we asked our contributors: Which year of the American Revolution and the founding era (circa…
James Lovell: Schoolteacher, Prisoner, Patriot
byJames Lovell, delegate from Massachusetts to the Second Continental Congress and the Confederation Congress from 1777 to 1782, the only member of Congress to…
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Review: Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era
byFourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era by Mike Bunn. (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2020) In Fourteenth Colony, Mike…
Best of Dispatches: Colin G. Calloway and The Indian World of George Washington
byIn this week’s program from the Dispatches archives, recorded in February 2019, host Brady Crytzer interviews distinguished historian Colin G. Calloway about his book, The Indian…