Jason Glasser is graduate of Robert Morris University. As an aspiring writer and independent researcher of the Revolutionary War, he grew up in Western Pennsylvania on the grounds of George Washington’s early military exploits in the French and Indian War, before relocating to Virginia. He was inspired to write and present history through a narrative style by his favorite author, Thomas Fleming. The passion he developed for the subject came after many years of battlefield trekking and using books by authors like Fleming, which help the reader smell the smoke and hear the guns as they walk through the past. He spends the majority of his time researching, writing, and painting Revolutionary War miniatures.
As night slowly gives into morning the salty breeze brings a mist across the suffocating sulphury air filled with fireballs. The fireballs pass each other in the sky like defined lanes of a road. Crashing into mounds of dirt. Ripping through structures of the small town. Igniting infernos and filling the air with choking smoke, […]
Almost anyone that develops a passion for history can point to an event deep within themselves that spawned an imaginative interpretation of events, and out of that, perhaps a lifelong passion for a certain historical period. The battlefield at Yorktown, Virginia covering the 1781 siege, certainly excites the imagination as one treks through the British […]
