Brady J. Crytzer, Author at Journal of the American Revolution

Brady J. Crytzer

Brady J. Crytzer teaches history at Robert Morris University. He is the recipient of the Donald S. Kelly and Donna J.McKee Awards for outstanding scholarship in the discipline of history. A specialist in imperialism in North America, he is the author of Fort Pitt: A Frontier History and Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America. His latest work, Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America is available from Westholme Publishing this Spring.

Economics, Features, The War Years (1775-1783) March 2, 2018 March 19, 2018

Mining Liberty: Daniel Roberdeau’s Quest for Lead on the Pennsylvania Frontier

In the fall of 1777, the Continental Congress had reached one of its most desperate points of the American Revolution. In September of that…

The War Years (1775-1783) May 12, 2015 August 28, 2016

Allegheny Burning: George Washington, Daniel Brodhead, and the Battle of Thompson’s Island

Following the Battle of Monmouth in late 1778, the traditional narrative of the American Revolution becomes lost for many non-specialists. With the existing dichotomy…