Kyler Burd, Author at Journal of the American Revolution

Author: Kyler Burd

Kyler is a native of New Mexico and currently a graduate student at Arizona State University. He received his undergraduate degree at New Mexico State University. He is currently researching the lives and attitudes of siblings of the Founding Fathers. He is the descendant of no fewer than six veterans of the American Revolution and it was his interest in his family’s history that sparked a deep appreciation for the era. In addition to history, he writes as an independent sports journalist covering the Arizona Cardinals.

Reviews Posted on October 5, 2025

Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States

BOOK REVIEW: Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States by Nicholas DiPucchio (University of Virginia Press, 2025) $35.00 paperback It is rather easy to take for granted the continental scale of the modern United States as a near inevitability, imagining a steady march of intrepid American pioneers into a foreboding wilderness […]

by Kyler Burd

Reviews Posted on June 2, 2025

John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America’s Independence

BOOK REVIEW: John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America’s Independence by Willard Sterne Randall (Dutton, 2025). Trends of historical research over the past few decades have steadily moved away from the “Great Man” study of the past that produced a slew of works on singular characters of important periods in favor of […]

by Kyler Burd

Critical Thinking Posted on December 10, 2020December 4, 2020

The Revolutionary Language and Behavior of the Whiskey Rebels

The image of a nation united in the aftermath of the American Revolution, content with hard-fought for and hard-won independence, is largely a grade school fairy tale. The early years of the American republic were often tumultuous, and competing conceptions of liberty meant that popular unrest was not uncommon. As it had in the period […]

by Kyler Burd