Tag: Lenape

Posted on March 21, 2020March 20, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Kevin A. Conn on the Lenape Origins of an Independent America

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews history teacher and JAR contributor Kevin A. Conn on his recent research on the Lenape and how their role in Pontiac’s Rebellion may have presaged the coming conflict between American colonists and Great Britain. Thousands of readers like you enjoy the articles published by the Journal of the […]

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Posted on January 21, 2020January 20, 2020

The Lenape Origins of an Independent America: The Catalyst of Pontiac’s War, 1763–1765

In the wake of the Seven Years’ War in North America, the costly British triumph seemed complete. Thus, when a coda to the Seven Years’ War erupted in the interior of North America, it came as an unwelcome shock to the British Empire. War broke out anew, nominally led by the Ottawa chieftain Pontiac, who […]

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