Continental and Militia Cavalry Compared: A Case Study from Saratoga, 1777
byGeorge Washington and various of his generals had their doubts about the effectiveness of volunteer militia units as the Revolutionary War intensified. The solution…
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Review: Two Revolutions and the Constitution
byBOOK REVIEW: Two Revolutions and the Constitution: How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution by James D. R. Philips (Lanham, MD: Hamilton…
This Week on Dispatches: Jordan Baker on the Cherokee-American War
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Jordan Baker on the Cherokee people’s response to encroaching settlers along the southern frontier…
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“Good and Sufficient Testimony:” The Development of the Revolutionary War Pension Plan
byOne of the greatest sources of information on the American Revolution is the collection of pension applications submitted by American veterans of the war…
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Why Did the Signers of the Declaration Engage in this Treasonous Act?
bySpeaking on Independence Day, 1821, John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the Unites States and the son of John Adams, a signer of the…
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Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence
byThe scribe of the Declaration of Independence—and perhaps the first man to read it in public—was born on March 28, 1736 in Haddonfield, New…
Review: Crisis at the Chesapeake
byBOOK REVIEW: Crisis at the Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America, 1755-1783 by Quintin Barry (Warwick, UK: Helion and Company, 2021) Although the…
This Week on Dispatches: James D. R. Philips on the Influence of the English Revolution on the American Revolution
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and historian James D. R. Philips on his research about the influence of the English…
The Politics and Iconography of Tammany in the Early American Republic
byOn the morning of Saturday, July 14, 1804 the funeral cortège for Alexander Hamilton proceeded northward to Trinity Church where the former Revolutionary War…
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A Reassessment of the Martyrdom of Regulator James Few
byMany early histories of the War of Regulation, which culminated in the May 16, 1771 Battle of Alamance, paint a picture of a Regulator…
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Silas Talbot, Continental Army Mariner
bySilas Talbot was a remarkable Revolutionary War notable who was astute and tactically flexible. He was at various times an artisan, entrepreneur, privateer, Rhode…
Review: Vermont’s Ebenezer Allen
byVermont’s Ebenezer Allen: Patriot, Commando and Emancipator by Glenn Fay Jr. (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021) Ethan Allen, the militia leader who shares credit…
This Week on Dispatches: Edna Gabler on the Silence of Slavery in Revolutionary War Art
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer, editor, researcher, and JAR contributor Edna Gabler on her recent study of images of enslaved…
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“A Mere Youth:” James Monroe’s Revolutionary War
byLate in his life, after retiring the presidency, James Monroe drafted his own history. He was still struck, five decades after the War for…
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Contributor Question: Remembered for the Wrong Reason?
byWe asked our contributors: Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era (other than Benedict Arnold) is remembered for the wrong reasons,…
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Virginia’s Swamp Fox: Captain Amos Weeks of Princess Anne County
byAnyone who has ever tackled genealogical or historical research knows that the process is very much like putting a jigsaw puzzle together or working…
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Review: George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring
byGeorge Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide by Bill Bleyer (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021) Whoever gets their hands…
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This Week on Dispatches: Jack Cambell on Lafayette’s Plan to Invade Ireland
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor and historical interpreter Jack Campbell on the Marquis de Lafayette’s fascinating attempt to garner…
Election Sermons and Collective Identity in Massachusetts, 1760–1775
by“It is Hoped that this People will Unitedly Exert Themselves:”[1] In August 1765, crowds gathered on the streets of Boston protesting Parliament’s Stamp Act,…
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Phraseology and the “Fourteenth Colony”
byThe phrase “fourteenth colony” describes a province in British North America that did not revolt alongside the original thirteen colonies. Such a province usually…
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Morale Manipulation as the Central Strategic Imperative in the American Revolutionary War
byMost people think of wartime propaganda as atrocity stories about the enemy. But commanders also disseminate false and true information in hopes of boosting…
Review: Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency
byPolitical Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency edited by Ben Lowe (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2021) In Political Thought and the…
This Week on Dispatches: Norman Desmarais on the Gazette Françoise
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor, writer, and historian Norman Desmarais on the Gazette Françoise, a French newspaper published for…