Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly is a journalist and historian. His latest book is Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence (now out in paperback from St. Martin's Griffin). His new book about the Erie Canal, Heaven's Ditch, will be available in July 2016. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Places March 4, 2016 March 2, 2016

Revolutionary Tourist: Chastellux in America

Almost every day, I drive past a Revolutionary War roadside marker. It commemorates a house that served as the headquarters of patriot Gen. Israel…

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The War Years (1775-1783) September 4, 2014 August 28, 2016

So Heavy a Trial: The Burning of New York’s First Capital

“We are hellishly frightened,” Gouverneur Morris wrote to a friend on October 8, 1777.[1] Morris was attending to the business of the New York…

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People July 22, 2014 August 28, 2016

Revolutionary Friendship

Two men are sitting drinking pints of ale in a Boston tavern. One is a strapping, full-faced young merchant given to loud laughter; the…