For the past twenty-three years Jason Edwin Anderson, Ph.D., has been teaching high school students at Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron, Ohio. He teaches college level American History and Political Science, as well as Archaeology and Museum Studies. His recent doctoral dissertation examined eighteenth-century colonial Connecticut through the experiences of David Wooster (1710-1777). At sixty-five years of age, Wooster was the oldest general officer in the early years of the Revolution. Jason lives in Wooster, Ohio—aptly named in honor of the Revolutionary War general—with his wife Susan.
The American Revolution came as a fire storm. No section of America was untouched or unaltered. The British Colonists who were in open rebellion against the crown in 1775 found themselves embroiled in a conflict that would last well beyond the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The war cost them dearly—in resources, […]
