Author: Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes

Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes is a former career diplomat with a historian’s love for a good story and a BA and MA in History from Tartu University in Estonia. A professional librarian, she currently serves as reference librarian at the DAR Library in Washington, DC, where she especially enjoys Revolutionary era research questions. Her research interests are mostly focused on the Eastern seaboard (especially New Jersey,) but she has also worked on other times and places (such as the Jewish community of Helena, Montana during the 1860s boom era.)

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“Very Cold & Nothing Remarkable”: the Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War, Part 2 of 2

This article continues an examination of the journal kept by Dr. Edmund Hagen of Scarborough, Maine, begun in “Dispatch’t to America’: the Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War.” This second article presents and examines the second half of Dr. Edmund Hagen’s journal, dealing with Hagen’s experience on board the prison ship […]

by Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes
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“Dispatch’t Him for America”: the Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War, Part 1 of 2

Edmund Hagen presumably never intended the publication of his daily journal of his 1776 stint as the surgeon on a successful, but ultimately ill-fated, privateer. But it is exactly the fact that his journal contemporaneously records what he at the time regarded as the important facts of the day, rather than retrospectively identifying important events […]

by Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes