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People, The War Years (1775-1783) July 22, 2020 July 21, 2020

Certain British and British American Actors in the Southern Theater of the War

by Ian Saberton

This article supplements one of mine that appeared in the Journal of the American Revolutionin November 2016.[1] Based partly on The Cornwallis Papers,[2] it…

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Journals, Primary Sources, Prisoners of War, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) July 21, 2020 July 19, 2020

“Very Cold & Nothing Remarkable”: the Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War, Part 2 of 2

by Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes

This article continues an examination of the journal kept by Dr. Edmund Hagen of Scarborough, Maine, begun in “Dispatch’t to America’: the Journal of…

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Journals, Primary Sources, Prisoners of War, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) July 20, 2020 July 19, 2020

“Dispatch’t Him for America”: the Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War, Part 1 of 2

by Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes

Edmund Hagen presumably never intended the publication of his daily journal of his 1776 stint as the surgeon on a successful, but ultimately ill-fated,…

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Arts & Literature, Culture, Features, Interviews, People July 19, 2020 July 19, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Greg Aaron on the American Revolution’s Influence on Superheroes

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews cybersecurity expert and former trade book editor Greg Aaron on the influence of the American Revolution on the…

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Constitutional Debate, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 16, 2020 July 13, 2020

Creating Order: Rufus King and the Nascent American Republic

by Keith Muchowski

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington stepped onto the balcony of the freshly-renovated and renamed Federal Hall on Wall Street in…

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Battles, Reviews July 15, 2020 July 13, 2020

The Battles of Connecticut Farms and Springfield 1780

by Timothy Symington

The Battles of Connecticut Farms and Springfield 1780 by Edward G. Lengel.  (Yardley, PA:  Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2020) Famed Washington historian Edward G. Lengel (editor-in-chief…

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People, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020

An American Bolingbroke: John Taylor of Caroline’s Republican Opposition, 1792–1794, Part 2 of 2

by James A. Cornelius

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, in the first half of the eighteenth century, and John Taylor of Caroline in the 1790s, both feared that…

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Constitutional Debate, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 13, 2020 July 12, 2020

An American Bolingbroke: John Taylor of Caroline’s Republican Opposition, 1792–1794, Part 1 of 2

by James A. Cornelius

From 1792 to 1794, John Taylor of Caroline, a senator from Virginia, was engaged in a heated party struggle between Jeffersonian Republicans and Hamiltonian…

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Features, Interviews, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 12, 2020 July 12, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Jett Conner on Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews political scientist, historian, and JAR contributor Jett Conner on his recent article about Thomas Paine’s and Thomas…

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Critical Thinking, Illness and Disease, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 9, 2020 July 7, 2020

Did Yellow Fever Save the United States?

by Geoff Smock

To Thomas Jefferson, great plagues were within the genus of republican antibodies. Like the occasional popular insurrection that warned rulers “the spirit of resistance”…

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Politics During the War (1775-1783), Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) July 8, 2020 July 7, 2020

L’Expédition Particulière crosses the Atlantic: The French Rally to the American Cause

by Kim Burdick

Following American success at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, French King Louis XVI signed the Treaty of Amity and Friendship, establishing open French…

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Engineering and Technology, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) July 7, 2020 July 6, 2020

The Fall of Fort Washington: The “Bunker Hill Effect”?

by Derrick E. Lapp

It was the one of the worst defeats suffered by the Americans during the War for Independence, certainly the worst over which George Washington…

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Critical Thinking, Economics, Reviews July 6, 2020 July 5, 2020

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution

by David Kindy

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution by Tyson Reeder. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019 America’s struggle for liberty ushered…

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Economics, Features, Interviews, Law, Prewar Politics (<1775) July 4, 2020 July 4, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Ken Shumate on the Sugar Act of 1733

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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews Marine Corps veteran, software developer, and JAR contributor Ken Shumate on the history and significance of the…

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Beyond the Classroom, Features July 3, 2020 June 30, 2020

And Now for Something Completely Different. . . . This Month’s Contributor Question

by Editors

For this 4th of July, we asked our contributors to write a limerick inspired by the Declaration of Independence. John Knight In Albion a…

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Arts & Literature, Culture July 2, 2020 June 28, 2020

Superheroes of the American Revolution

by Greg Aaron

Every nation has an origin story. In the popular imagination, the American Revolutionary War has been a tale of heroes who were forged in…

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Illness and Disease, Medicine, The War Years (1775-1783) July 1, 2020 June 29, 2020

Lessons from an Outbreak: Smallpox in the Hudson Highlands, 1781

by Steven Elliott

On January 20, 1781, near New Windsor in the Hudson Highlands of New York, Dr. Samuel Adams wrote a brief entry in the diary…

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Constitutional Debate, Law, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) June 30, 2020 June 29, 2020

John Marshall: Hamilton 2.0

by Geoff Smock

Celebrated for his stirring words in the Declaration of Independence, and having profited upon the popularity since, Thomas Jefferson was now America’s chief magistrate—and…

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Critical Thinking, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Primary Sources June 29, 2020 June 27, 2020

Documents of the Revolution: A Continuum of Conviction

by Christopher Warren

Those familiar with American history know that the Articles of Confederation served as the first constitution of the unified states during the American Revolution….

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Features, Interviews, People, The War Years (1775-1783) June 27, 2020 June 27, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Christian M. McBurney on General Charles Lee and the Oath of Allegiance

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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author, attorney, and JAR contributor, Christian M. McBurney on the enigmatic General Charles Lee and his role…

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Economics, Law, Postwar Politics (>1783) June 25, 2020 June 23, 2020

Hylton v. U.S. and Alexander Hamilton’s Defense of Congressional Taxing Authority

by Nathan Hotes and Frank W. Garmon Jr.

In 1796 Daniel Hylton, a wealthy Virginian farmer, brought a suit before the United States Supreme Court arguing that a federal tax on carriages…

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Engineering and Technology, The War Years (1775-1783) June 24, 2020 June 23, 2020

Tower of Victory

by Jeff Dacus

As far back as the eleventh century B.C. attackers confronted by fortified cities and towns, castles, and forts, used siege towers to elevate their…

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Diplomacy, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) June 23, 2020 June 20, 2020

Opposing the Franco-American Alliance: The Case of Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot

by Richard J. Werther

The participation of the French on the side of the newly declared independent American colonies is widely acknowledged as the factor that tipped the…

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Features, Interviews, People June 22, 2020 June 25, 2020

Contributor Close-up: George Kotlik

by Editors

What inspired you to start researching and writing about the American Revolution? The War for North American Independence has been a fierce passion of…

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Critical Thinking, Features, Interviews June 21, 2020 June 22, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Geoff Smock on the Influence of the Enlightenment on Thomas Jefferson

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews teacher and JAR contributor Geoff Smock on Thomas Jefferson’s enlightenment-influenced views on pandemics, the French Revolution, Shays’…

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Economics, Law, Prewar Politics (<1775) June 18, 2020 June 15, 2020

“The Right of Making Such a Law, Has Never Been Questioned:” Reasons Against the Renewal of the Sugar Act, Part 3 of 3

by Ken Shumate

Remonstrance Against the Renewal Rhode Island merchants, prompted by the January letter from Boston merchants, requested that Governor Hopkins call a special meeting of…

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Arts & Literature, Culture, Myths and Legends, Primary Sources June 17, 2020 June 16, 2020

Who Said, “Don’t Fire Till You See the Whites of Their Eyes”?

by J. L. Bell

“Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes!” is one of the most famous quotations to come out of the Revolutionary War. According…

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Patriots, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) June 16, 2020 June 16, 2020

Williamsburg Becomes an Armed Camp, 1775

by Michael Cecere

No one disputes that the fighting that erupted at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 ignited a war between Great Britain and her…

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Features, Prewar Conflict (<1775), Reviews June 15, 2020 January 11, 2021

The Boston Massacre: A Family History

by Timothy Symington

The Boston Massacre:  A Family History by Serena Zabin. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) The significant other of this particular reviewer saw him reading yet…

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Constitutional Debate, Features, Interviews, Postwar Politics (>1783) June 14, 2020 June 14, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Keith Muchowski on Rufus King, Forgotten Founder

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews professor and librarian Keith Muchowski on Rufus King, forgotten founder. Thousands of readers like you enjoy the articles…

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Economics, Law, Prewar Politics (<1775) June 11, 2020 June 11, 2020

The Essay “well deserves the candid Reader’s attentive perusal:” Reasons Against the Renewal of the Sugar Act, Part 2 of 3

by Ken Shumate

The writings abridged below, all asserting reasons against the renewal of the Sugar Act, mark the end of the long period of the colonies…

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Features, Primary Sources June 10, 2020 June 8, 2020

Primary Sources Online: JAR Contributor Recommendations

by Editors

This month we asked our contributors: What is your favorite digitized collection of primary source material? There is a treasure trove of resources available…

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Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) June 9, 2020 June 3, 2020

Washington’s Councils of War: A Selective Assessment

by Damien Cregeau

A.H. Ritchie’s 1856 engraving entitled “Washington and His Generals” is a creative, imaginary scene, as the dozens of generals shown assembled never congregated in…

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Features, Memoir, Reviews, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) June 8, 2020 June 17, 2020

Sailing Under John Paul Jones: The Memoir of Continental Navy Midshipman Nathaniel Fanning

by George Kotlik

Sailing Under John Paul Jones: The Memoir of Continental Navy Midshipman Nathaniel Fanning, 1778-1783, edited by Louis Arthur Norton. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,…

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Features, Interviews, The War Years (1775-1783) June 7, 2020 June 7, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Andrew Waters on Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter and the Revolution in the South

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author, land conservationist, and JAR contributor Andrew Waters on how Nathanael Greene and Thomas Sumter fought against…

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Economics, Law, Prewar Politics (<1775) June 4, 2020 June 1, 2020

“America will suffer for a time only . . . But the Loss to Great Britain will be irretrievable”: Reasons Against the Renewal of the Sugar Act, Part 1 of 3

by Ken Shumate

In early 1764, four British colonies in North America protested the enforcement and planned renewal of the about-to-expire Sugar Act of 1733 (also known…

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Features, Frontier, Postwar Conflict (>1783), Reviews, The War Years (1775-1783) June 3, 2020 May 23, 2020

George Rogers Clark and William Croghan

by Gabriel Neville

George Rogers Clark and William Croghan: A Story of the Revolution, Settlement, and Early Life at Locust Grove by Gwynne Tuell Potts (Lexington: University Press…

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Historic Sites, Preservation, Prewar Politics (<1775) June 2, 2020 May 23, 2020

Williamsburg on the Eve of War

by Michael Cecere

A visitor to Williamsburg prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War would have discovered a city of just 1,900 inhabitants, roughly 900 of…

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Features, Reviews, The War Years (1775-1783) June 1, 2020 May 18, 2020

The Quaker and the Gamecock

by Alec D. Rogers

The Quaker and the Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War for the Soul of the South by Andrew Waters (Casemate, 2019) Among…

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