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Top Ten Quotes by Francis Lord Rawdon
byFor the past two years I have had the good fortune to be heading up a project to gather, for eventual publication, the correspondence…
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Benjamin Franklin’s Unconventional Marriage to Deborah Read
byShe was neither beautiful nor wealthy. Nor was Benjamin Franklin’s wife educated or intellectual. Nevertheless in 1724 he proposed to Deborah Read while renting…
Our Dear Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America
byBOOK REVIEW: Our Dear Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America by Michael D. Breidenbach (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021) Most Americans…
This Week on Dispatches: Todd W. Braisted on Point/Counterpoint between Israel Putnam and William Tryon
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR contributor Todd W. Braisted on Israel Putnam and William Tryon trying to influence Hessian…
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America Begins: How Connecticut’s Samuel Johnson Created America
by“The great End and Business therefore of Philosophy, is to make us truly happy; and this is the End ultimately pursued through all the…
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King Frederick the Great and the American Colonies—Mit Complimenten Aweissen
byMit Complimenten Aweissen (put him off with compliments) Arthur Lee, one of the American Commissioners stationed in Paris, was appointed minister to the Prussian Court…
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Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns
byBOOK REVIEW: Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns, War in the North 1777-1783 by Mark Edward Lender (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2022) Mark Edward Lender’s recent book…
This Week on Dispatches: Brian Koyn on George Washington’s Emotional Intelligence and the Newburgh Conspiracy
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews US Army chaplain Brian Koyn on how modern emotional intelligence research can provide insight on how George…
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George III’s (Implicit) Sanction of the American Revolution
byIn Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), Jefferson wrote of King George III’s unwillingness to use his “negative” to veto unjust proposals….
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The Articles of Confederation and Western Expansion
byThe Articles of Confederation described the first government of the new United States. As one may imagine from understanding the later debates on the…
Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
byBOOK REVIEW: Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson by Mel Laracey (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021) In Informing a Nation:…
Point/Counterpoint, 1777 Style: Dueling Proclamations from Israel Putnam and William Tryon
byAs the year 1777 drew to a close, the region around the city of New York had been under British control for a year….
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King Frederick the Great and the American Colonies: The Preliminaries
byUpon the death of his grandfather on May 31, 1740, Frederick William II of the House of Hohenzollern became the King of Prussia. Over…
A Very Fine Regiment: The 47th Foot During the American War of Independence, 1773–1783
byBOOK REVIEW: A Very Fine Regiment: The 47th Foot during the American War of Independence, 1773-1783 by Paul Knight. (Warwick, UK: Helion Publishing, 2022) The…
This Week on Dispatches: Christian McBurney on How Rhode Island Prevented an Enslaved Family from Being Transported to the South
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews Rhode Island and Revolutionary War historian Christian McBurney on uncovering the extraordinary story of a man from…
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First in Emotional Intelligence: George Washington During the Newburgh Conspiracy
byGeneral George Washington stood in front of his assembled officers, reading glasses in hand, and stated, “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on…
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
byBOOK REVIEW: Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolan (New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022) Marine historian Eric Jay…