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Critical Thinking

Tarleton at the Waxhaws: A Proposal for Reconciliation

by Robert Ford

The engagement between Abraham Buford and Banastre Tarleton at the Waxhaws has attracted controversy since it occurred. Buford has had supporters and detractors, just...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

August 5, 2025

Summer 1775: Washington Takes Command of the Continental Army

by Michael Cecere

"They are by no means such Troops, in any respect, as you are led to believe of them from the [Accounts] which are published."[1]...

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Interviews

August 4, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: Josh Wheeler on David Fanning’s Murderous Raid

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR Contributor Josh Wheeler on Loyalist David Fanning's raid against Patriots in North Carolina after the...

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Religion

July 31, 2025

“In the Cause of American Liberty:” Catholic Contributions to Independence

by Raphael Corletta

Eighteenth-century America was predominantly Protestant, and the Thirteen Colonies suffered from a virulent strain of anti-Catholicism. Despite this, the mostly-Protestant Founding Fathers, while being...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

July 29, 2025

Fires and Explosions at Fort St. John’s in 1780

by Robert Jeffrey

The pivotal military events that transpired in the northern theatre of war during the American Revolution are well known. A chronological list of the...

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