Sebastian van Bastelaer, Author at Journal of the American Revolution

Sebastian van Bastelaer

Sebastian van Bastelaer is the program manger at the Constitutional Sources Project in Washington, DC. He recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in History and Political Science. An avid scholar of the Founding era, he has written pieces featured in the ARCHIVE journal at the UW-Madison and in the Wisconsin Magazine of History.

Critical Thinking, Law, Loyalists, Politics During the War (1775-1783) August 5, 2019 August 4, 2019

“That Damned Absurd Word Liberty:” Les Habitants, the Quebec Act, and American Revolutionary Ideology, 1774–1776

The American invasion of Quebec of 1775-1776 failed to achieve its primary objective: to bring into the fold what the Continental Congress referred to…

Culture, Loyalists, Patriots, The War Years (1775-1783) July 9, 2019 July 8, 2019

Les Habitants: Collaboration and Pro-American Violence in Canada, 1774–1776

The fleeting invasion of Canada in 1775, though often consigned to a bit-part in the American Revolutionary drama, proved vital to the emergence of…

Sebastian van Bastelaer

“That Damned Absurd Word Liberty:” Les Habitants, the Quebec Act, and American Revolutionary Ideology, 1774–1776

Les Habitants: Collaboration and Pro-American Violence in Canada, 1774–1776

Unreasonable Searches and Seizures: The Common Law Origins of the Fourth Amendment

The Benedict Family of Salem, New York

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