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Critical Thinking

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: The Present Status of the Controversy

by Scott Syfert

May 2025 will bring the 250th anniversary of a unique if obscure Revolutionary war event in Charlotte, North Carolina: the much beloved, much maligned,...

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Reviews

February 9, 2026

Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England

by Timothy Symington

BOOK REVIEW: Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England by Gloria McCahon Whiting. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press,...

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Prisoners of War

February 5, 2026

The Monmouth County Gaol and the Jailbreak of February 1781

by Michael Adelberg

As the Revolutionary War began, the fledgling Continental and state governments were faced the huge burden of holding and provisioning thousands of captured enemy...

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Postwar Politics (>1783)

February 3, 2026

The New Dominion: The Land Lotteries

by Gabriel Neville

Brevet Major General Peter Muhlenberg woke up in the ruins of Fort Littleton on the morning of March 6, 1784, mounted his horse, and...

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Reviews

February 1, 2026

The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence

by Nichole Louise

BOOK REVIEW: The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence by Lauren Duval (Charlotte: University of North Carolina Press)...

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