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Conflict & War

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

by Sherman Lohnes

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

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The War Years (1775-1783)

November 4, 2025

Moses Kirkland and the Origins of the Southern Strategy

by Charles Hugh Brown

Moses Kirkland was a man born into the unsettled margins of South Carolina, where ambition and survival often blurred together. By the mid-1770s he...

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Lectures and Presentations

November 3, 2025

A Dispatches Special: Prof. Alexander S. Burns discusses his new book, Infantry in Battle, 1733–1783

by Editors

This week Brady Crytzer's guest is Alexander S. Burns, assistant professor of History at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Prof. Burns discussed his new book...

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Critical Thinking

October 30, 2025

The Tree of Liberty: Standing Armies and the Struggle to Define American Governance

by Matthew Carroll

One the United States’ Founders, writing under the pseudonym Brutus, argued that the new country, spanning too great a distance and too many distinctly...

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Critical Thinking

October 28, 2025

Washington’s Ten Best Military Decisions

by David Price

An unbiased observer would likely conclude that the record of George Washington’s generalship in purely military terms was a mixed bag. The intent of...

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