Stephen Brumwell, Author at Journal of the American Revolution

Stephen Brumwell

Stephen Brumwell is an award-winning British freelance writer and independent historian based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A former newspaper journalist, he is the author of several books examining aspects of Anglo-American military history in the second half of the eighteenth century, most recently, Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty (Yale University Press, 2018). Stephen's website is at: http://www.brumwellhistory.com/

Conflict & War, Loyalists, Pension Records, People, Primary Sources April 23, 2019 April 23, 2019

Revisiting B. E. Griffiths: Former Slave, Queen’s Ranger, and “Son of Africa”

In a recent article, Todd Braisted reconstructed the remarkable story of a black Loyalist soldier, “Trumpeter Barney” of the Queen’s Rangers.[1] Through meticulous archival…

Postwar Politics (>1783) March 9, 2016 August 28, 2016

Alexander Hamilton, Benedict Arnold and a “forgotten” Publius

Thanks to a critically-acclaimed and phenomenally popular Broadway musical, Alexander Hamilton has, quite literally, returned to the spotlight. The success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton,…