Author: John Gilbert McCurdy

John Gilbert McCurdy is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University, where he has taught since 2005. He is the author of Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution (Cornell, 2019), which was named 2019 Book of the Year by the Journal of the American Revolution. He also wrote Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States (Cornell, 2009). McCurdy received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. He has held fellowships from the British Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the University of Michigan.

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The Fevered Fight: A Medical History of the American Revolution, 1775–1783

BOOK REVIEW: The Fevered Fight: A Medical History of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by Martin R. Howard (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2023) Medical care was at the center of the Revolution. When the War for American Independence began, the British army summoned its physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, and purveyors to tend to the men who sickened and […]

by John Gilbert McCurdy
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United for Independence: The American Revolution in the Middle Colonies, 1775–1776

BOOK REVIEW: United for Independence: The American Revolution in the Middle Colonies, 1775-1776 by Michael Cecere (Yardley, Pa.: Westholme, 2023) In the American Revolutionary War, probably no period was more dramatic than the time between April 1775 and August 1776. It was then that the skirmish at Lexington and Concord grew into an all-out war, and […]

by John Gilbert McCurdy