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Interviews

This Week on Dispatches: Brett Bannor on Gulliver’s Travels and the Founding Generation

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR Contributor Brett Bannor on the surprising influence of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" on members of...

An interview with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, producers of Ken Burns’ The American Revolution

The PBS documentary The American Revolution, produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, premiers on November 16, 2025. Producers Sarah Botstein and...

Reviews

George Washington: His Quest for Honor and Fame

BOOK REVIEW: George Washington: His Quest for Honor and Fame by Peter R. Henriques (Charlottesville, VA: University of VA Press, 2025) $24.95 hardcover Famed...

The War Years (1775-1783)

Brickett’s Brigade: Less Infantry and More Cavalry at Saratoga

Borden H. Mills, writing on the Saratoga campaign a century ago, noted: The task of determining, with any degree of certainty, what militia units...