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Arts & Literature, Culture, Historic Sites, Memorials November 21, 2022 November 21, 2022

Benjamin Franklin and the American Legacy in Paris

by John E. Happ

France has an extraordinary way of commemorating the glorious past through landmarks and monuments. Benjamin Franklin had been an off and on resident of…

Arts & Literature, Features, Interviews, Slavery and Indentured Servitude August 14, 2021 August 14, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Edna Gabler on the Silence of Slavery in Revolutionary War Art

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer, editor, researcher, and JAR contributor Edna Gabler on her recent study of images of enslaved…

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Arts & Literature, Culture, Slavery and Indentured Servitude July 13, 2021 July 12, 2021

The Silence of Slavery in Revolutionary War Art

by Edna Gabler

“His Britannic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any Destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other Property of the American…

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1. Walt C The Delcastle Cannonball

McLane's mounted company were always around, seldom seen. It's possible they were the unit that left smoldering campfires above Hockessin Meetinghouse when the British arrived, late afternoon of Sep 9.…
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

It has nothing to do with era it was written. The book is part of the "Army Lineage Series." It had to be written to match that premise. It is…
3. Bob Winowitch Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Phil, I know we disagree on some of Wright's work, but this holds true for the three Suffolk County companies enlisted into the Third NY of '75. Those three companies…