Author: Megan King

In receiving a Master’s of Historical Research at the University of Stirling, a Postgraduate Certificate from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) based at the University of Maryland at College Park, and a baccalaureate degree from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Megan has completed nearly a decade of specialized research in history, political science, and social psychology. As a first-year PhD student at the University of Kent, her current project focuses on the process of radicalization in Revolutionary America and the mechanisms of mobilization utilized by Patriot organizations.

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Review: Anatomy of a Massacre

Anatomy of a Massacre: The Destruction of Gnadenhutten, 1782 by Eric Sterner (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2020) Eric Sterner’s Anatomy of a Massacre: The Destruction of Gnadenhutten, 1782, offers readers a deeply insightful illustration of one of eighteenth-century America’s most tragic incidents of frontier violence. Concisely written and incredibly rich in primary research, this work supplies […]

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The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T.H. Breen (Harvard University Press, 2019) In the latest of a series of influential works from T.H. Breen, the veteran historian provides his audience with an elaborate illustration of how the ordinary colonist interpreted, experienced, and survived the American Revolution. How did the Maryland farmer […]

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The Consequences of Loyalism

The Consequences of Loyalism: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon edited by Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore (University of South Carolina Press, 2019) Anyone who has ever picked up a book concerning Loyalism in the American Revolutionary era has likely encountered the work of Robert M. “Bob” Calhoon. A renowned academic, author, and advisor […]

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Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton

Book Review:  Eliza Hamilton:  The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar Mazzeo (Simon and Schuster:  2018). BUY THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON In this intelligent and insightful biography, Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton, Tilar Mazzeo makes it nearly impossible for the reader not […]

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