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Journal of the American Revolution (allthingsliberty.com) is a free online magazine with simple goals: Make serious history more palatable to a general audience and provide readers with fun, educational and interesting content. A business casual approach, if you will. Since our launch in January 2013, we have published hundreds of articles by dozen historians and experts.

Features, Interviews, People April 10, 2021 April 10, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Geoff Smock on the Teenage Thomas Jefferson

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews educator and JAR contributor Geoff Smock on his research into the teenage years of Thomas Jefferson,…

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Features, Interviews, People April 7, 2021 March 31, 2021

Contributor Close-Up: Robert Davis

What inspired you to start researching and writing about the Revolution? In 1974, Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia began a state internship program. I…

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Diplomacy, Features, Interviews, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) April 3, 2021 April 8, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Richard J. Werther on King Gustav III of Sweden Recognizing the United States

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews researcher and JAR contributor Richard J. Werther on King Gustav III of Sweden’s recognition of an…

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Features, Interviews, People, The War Years (1775-1783) March 27, 2021 March 27, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: John Rees on Remembrances of Black Revolutionary War Veterans

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer, researcher, historian, and JAR contributor John Rees on his series of articles about nineteenth-century remembrances…

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Features, Interviews, Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) March 20, 2021 March 20, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Todd Braisted on Benjamin Thompson’s Black Dragoons

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews researcher, writer, and JAR contributor Todd Braisted on loyalist Benjamin Thompson—later Count Mumford—and the provincial mounted regiment that…

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Features, Interviews, Law, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) March 14, 2021 March 14, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Andrew Zellers-Frederick on the Impeachment of Senator William Blount, the First in American History

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR contributor Andrew Zellers-Frederick on the impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee, the…

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Features, Interviews, Loyalists, Patriots, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) March 6, 2021 March 6, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Mark Sullivan on Francis and Gottlieb Otto, Loyalists or Rebels?

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer, historian, and twenty-five year US Army veteran Mark Sullivan on his recent JAR article about…

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Features, Historic Sites, Interviews, People, Preservation February 27, 2021 February 27, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Brooke Barbier on Paul Revere’s Boston

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer and podcast host Brooke Barbier about historic sites in Boston that were familiar to Paul Revere….

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Espionage and Cryptography, Features, Interviews, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) February 20, 2021 February 20, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: William W. Reynolds on the British Naval Signals Missions of 1781

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews retired engineer and JAR contributor William W. Reynolds on how the Americans were able to obtain…

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Features, Interviews, Prisoners of War, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) February 13, 2021 February 13, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Louis Arthur Norton on the Plight of the Seamen

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR contributor Louis Arthur Norton on what happened to captured Continental Navy, states’ navies,…

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Critical Thinking, Features, Interviews, Prewar Conflict (<1775) February 5, 2021 February 5, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Serena Zabin on The Boston Massacre: A Family History

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian, author, and JAR Book-of-the-Year Award winner, Serena Zabin on her book, The Boston Massacre: A…

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Features, Frontier, Interviews, The War Years (1775-1783) January 31, 2021 January 31, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: George Kotlik on Texas and the American Revolution

On 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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Arts & Literature, Education, Features January 29, 2021 January 26, 2021

The 2020 JAR Book-of-the-Year

The 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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Critical Thinking, Features, Interviews, Native Americans, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) January 24, 2021 January 24, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Brian Gerring on “La Petite Guerre” and Native American Irregular Warfare

On 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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Features, Interviews, Letters and Correspondence, Prewar Politics (<1775) January 16, 2021 January 16, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Greg Aaron on Lord Dartmouth’s War of Words

Dispatches 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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Features January 6, 2021 January 5, 2021

Contributor Question: My Favorite Year

With the start of a new year, this month we asked our contributors: Which year of the American Revolution and the founding era (circa…

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Features, Interviews, News January 2, 2021 January 2, 2021

Best of Dispatches: Colin G. Calloway and The Indian World of George Washington

In 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…

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Features, Interviews December 27, 2020 December 27, 2020

Best of Dispatches: Michael W. Twitty on the Legacy of African American Cuisine

Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking back in the Dispatches archives to replay a selection of notable interviews. In this episode, first…

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Features, Interviews, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) December 20, 2020 December 20, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Don N. Hagist on His Latest Book, Noble Volunteers

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and Journal of the American Revolution editor-in-chief, Don N. Hagist on his latest book, Noble Volunteers:…

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Features, Food & Lifestyle, The War Years (1775-1783) December 14, 2020 December 13, 2020

Contributor Question: What is Your Favorite Beverage of the Revolutionary Era?

This month, we asked our contributors: With many different holidays and celebrations approaching, what is your favorite beverage known to have been consumed during…

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Features, Interviews, Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) December 12, 2020 December 12, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Kevin A. Conn on the Remarkable Career of Loyalist Soldier and Spy James Moody

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews AP History teacher and JAR contributor Kevin A. Conn on the remarkable career of New Jersey Loyalist…

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Espionage and Cryptography, Features, Interviews, People, The War Years (1775-1783) December 5, 2020 December 5, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Ken Daigler on Nathanael Greene and His Spy Network

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews espionage expert, former CIA operations officer, and JAR contributor Ken Daigler on General Nathanael Greene and his…

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Features, Interviews, People, Postwar Conflict (>1783) November 28, 2020 November 28, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Joseph E. Wroblewski on John Paul Jones and Thaddeus Kosciuszko in Warsaw, 1789

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Joseph E. Wroblewski about the chance encounter of two legendary figures of American independence, John…

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Features, Interviews, Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) November 21, 2020 November 21, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Eric Wiser on the Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Eric Wiser tells the fascinating story of notorious Loyalist partisan and British spy, Cornelius Hatfield,…

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Constitutional Debate, Features, Interviews, People, Political Philosophy November 13, 2020 November 12, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Thomas E. Ricks on First Principles

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews Pulitzer-prize winning historian Thomas E. Ricks on his new book, First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from…

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Battles, Features, Interviews, People November 8, 2020 November 8, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Mark R. Anderson on Ethan Allen’s Mysterious Defeat at Montreal

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian, retired Air Force officer, and JAR contributor Mark R. Anderson on his research into the causes…

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Critical Thinking, Features, Postwar Politics (>1783) November 3, 2020 November 1, 2020

If George Washington had not Run for President . . . ?

This month we asked our contributors: If George Washington had not run for President in 1789, who would you like to have had as…

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Battles, Features, Interviews, Strategy November 1, 2020 November 1, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Travis Copeland on the Battle of Shallow Ford

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews postgraduate historian student and JAR contributor Travis Copeland on his recent article about the Battle of Shallow…

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Features, Interviews, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) October 25, 2020 October 25, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: John E. Happ on the Role of Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais in American Independence

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor John E. Happ on the enigmatic Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais. Best known today for his plays, The…

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News October 21, 2020 October 20, 2020

The JAR Annual Volumes, Now All Back in Stock

We are pleased to announce that all six of the on-going series of uniform annual volumes, beginning with 2015, are now once again available….

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Features, Interviews, People, Prisoners of War, The War Years (1775-1783) October 18, 2020 October 18, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Alex White on the Revolutionary Story of Thomas White

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor and University of Wisconsin-Madison employee Alex White on discovering his ancestor’s experience as an officer…

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Features, Interviews, People October 10, 2020 October 10, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Robert Scott Davis on Margaret Eustace and the American Revolution

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian, author, and JAR contributor Robert Scott Davis on Georgian socialite and possible British spy, Margaret Eustace,…

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Audiovisual, Espionage and Cryptography, Features, Historic Sites, Interviews, People October 4, 2020 October 4, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Bridget Barbara on Retracing the Steps of Benedict Arnold and John André

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews video producer and JAR contributor Bridget Barbara on her recent video following footsteps of John André and…

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Features, Interviews, Memorials, People September 27, 2020 September 27, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Damien Cregeau on Ten Revolutionary War Patriot Graves

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR contributor Damien Cregeau about ten notable graves and memorials honoring Patriots, from George Washington…

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Features, Historic Sites, Interviews, Preservation, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) September 21, 2020 September 21, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Rand Mirante on Fort Mifflin on the Delaware

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR contributor Rand Mirante on the history of Fort Mifflin, the Revolutionary War-era fort on…

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Features, Interviews, People September 16, 2020 September 14, 2020

Contributor Close-Up: Timothy Symington

What inspired you to start researching and writing about the Revolution? I have always had a desire to learn about history.  I was the…

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Interviews, People, The War Years (1775-1783) September 13, 2020 September 13, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Philip D. Weaver on the Jersey Greys of 1776

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR contributor Philip D. Weaver on his research on the 3rd New Jersey Regiment, the…

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Features, People, Primary Sources September 7, 2020 September 6, 2020

Contributor Question: A Favorite Witty Quote from the Revolutionary Era

This month we asked our contributors for their favorite witty quote from the era of the American Revolution. The responses are widely varied and…

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Features, Interviews, Patriots, Prewar Conflict (<1775), Prewar Politics (<1775) September 6, 2020 September 6, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Dayne Rugh on the Connecticut Sons of Liberty

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews Director of Education for Slater Memorial Museum and JAR contributor Dayne Rugh on his recent article about…

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