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Review: Philadelphia, The Revolutionary City at the American Philosophical Society

by Nichole Louise

Philadelphia, The Revolutionary City exhibit at the American Philosophical Society (founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743) positions the historic city as the most consistently...

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Autobiography and Biography

July 10, 2025

Joseph Warren, Sally Edwards, and Mercy Scollay: What is the True Story?

by Janet Uhlar

Joseph Warren was the embodiment of the American colonists’ struggle to secure their rights. In 1775 he was a widowed father of four young...

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Interviews

July 9, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: David Price on Abolitionist Lemuel Haynes

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR Contributor David Price on the life of Lemuel Haynes, clergyman and an abolitionist...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

July 8, 2025

The 1779 Invasion of Iroquoia: Scorched Earth as Described by Continental Soldiers

by Victor J. DiSanto

Six indigenous nations in upstate New York—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora—were joined in an alliance for mutual protection. Known as the...

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Politics During the War (1775-1783)

July 3, 2025

That Audacious Paper: Jonathan Lind and Thomas Hutchinson Answer the Declaration of Independence

by David Otersen

The Declaration of Independence is commonly revered in modern America as the aspirational apotheosis of political and social egalitarianism, although in 1776, among English...

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