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Conflict & War

Private Adam Rider: General Washington’s Improbable Spy

by Tucker F. Hentz

On March 18, 1818, the U.S. Congress enacted a law that established a lifetime pension for American veterans of the Continental army who were...

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Reviews

October 13, 2025

Colonel William Prescott: Heroic Commander of the Battle of Bunker Hill

by Sam Short

BOOK REVIEW: Colonel William Prescott: Heroic Commander of the Battle of Bunker Hill by Donald R. Ryan. (Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2025) $34.95 hardcover. Donald...

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Autobiography and Biography

October 9, 2025

Jean Thurel: Ninety Years a Private Soldier

by Norman Desmarais

Jean Thurel, or Jean Theurel, is one of those very unusual people whose life extended over three centuries. He was born in Orain, Departement...

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Postwar Politics (>1783)

October 7, 2025

“The Good Old Republican Cause”: Philip Freneau’s Principled Stand against the Shadow of Monarchy

by Shawn David McGhee

Many Americans celebrated April 30, 1789, as a defining moment for the United States, a sort of political BC/AD demarcation point in the republic’s...

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Reviews

October 5, 2025

Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States

by Kyler Burd

BOOK REVIEW: Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States by Nicholas DiPucchio (University of Virginia Press, 2025) $35.00 paperback It...

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