Adam E. Zielinski, Author at Journal of the American Revolution

Adam E. Zielinski

Growing up minutes away from Philadelphia, Adam has spent the last decade involved with various research and writing projects on the Revolutionary period. He was the first Rev War Fellow with the American Battlefield Trust and has designed numerous interpretive signs and monuments throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. With professional backgrounds in history and the museum field, he serves as vice president of the Rev War Alliance of Burlington County.

Autobiography and Biography, Exhibits, Features, Prisoners of War, Slavery and Indentured Servitude, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) June 13, 2023 June 13, 2023

James Forten, Revolutionary: Forgotten No More

A recent trip to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia unearthed the institution’s continued shift towards presenting narratives and stories that most…

Critical Thinking, Historic Sites, The War Years (1775-1783) December 5, 2019 December 4, 2019

The Engagement at Woodlane: Precursor to the Battle of Iron Works Hill, a Key to the American Victory at Trenton

Their feet were leaving noticeable imprints in the grassy field. It was another two hundred yards to the hedgerow, and then a steep climb…

Maps and Cartography, People, Primary Sources December 27, 2018 December 23, 2018

Rediscovering British Surveyor John Hills

While conducting research for my essay on General Washington’s plight in the New Jersey short hills in the spring of 1777, I was fortunate to…

Features, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) April 11, 2018 April 10, 2018

A Phantom at Middle Brook: Washington in the New Jersey Short Hills

Most of the stories told of George Washington are tales of complete fiction. He never chopped down a cherry tree, at least not in…

Adam E. Zielinski

James Forten, Revolutionary: Forgotten No More

The Engagement at Woodlane: Precursor to the Battle of Iron Works Hill, a Key to the American Victory at Trenton

Rediscovering British Surveyor John Hills

A Phantom at Middle Brook: Washington in the New Jersey Short Hills

The American Invasion of Canada

The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War

Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys