Matthew P. Dziennik

Matthew P. Dziennik is an early career fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on warfare in the early British Empire, with a particular emphasis on the empire’s use of non-English soldiers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has taught in both the United States and the United Kingdom on themes related to the American Revolution and is particularly interested in the relationship between slavery and revolution and in comparative approaches to the American, French, and Haitian revolutions.

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People May 12, 2014 August 28, 2016

Ireland and the American Revolution

There is no coincidence in the date that I sat down to write this article. Monday March 17th 2014 – St Patrick’s Day. Two…

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People October 14, 2013 August 28, 2016

Scotland and the American Revolution

Reading Thomas Fleming’s fascinating article on “Celts in the American Revolution,” one is struck by the extent to which Scotland and the Scots informed…

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Beyond the Classroom August 16, 2013 August 28, 2016

Alcohol to Zealotry: The Revolution A to Z (Part 2)

Continued from yesterday. Read A to Z first. M is for mobilization. Revolutionary authorities became masters of mobilizing resources at a local level to…

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Beyond the Classroom August 15, 2013 August 28, 2016

Alcohol to Zealotry: The Revolution A to Z (Part 1)

One of the great ideals of the American Revolution was the notion that political authority derives from the will of the governed. Of the…