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Illness and Disease, Medicine, The War Years (1775-1783) July 1, 2020 June 29, 2020

Lessons from an Outbreak: Smallpox in the Hudson Highlands, 1781

by Steven Elliott

On January 20, 1781, near New Windsor in the Hudson Highlands of New York, Dr. Samuel Adams wrote a brief entry in the diary…

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Illness and Disease, The War Years (1775-1783) April 22, 2020 April 21, 2020

Outbreak! New York, 1779

by Don N. Hagist

“The number of sick increasing every day, in all the different Camps of the army,” wrote Capt. John Peebles in his diary on September…

Features, Interviews, Medicine, Politics During the War (1775-1783) April 12, 2020 April 12, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Justin McHenry on John Morgan, William Shippen, and the Fate of the Continental Medical Department

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews archivist and JAR contributor Justin McHenry about the heated rivalry between John Morgan and William Shippen over control…

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THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THESE EVENTS TO LIGHT - IN A TIME WHEN FEWER OF US ARE STUDYING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - CAUSES AND EFFECTS - EASY TO READ -…
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I enjoyed this article. It's interesting to read about Knox's role in the development of U.S. Indian policy, given his role in directing the war with the Great Lakes nations…
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Chris, the raids by Tryon on Greenwich, New Haven, Fairfield, and Norwalk in 1779 and Arnold's raid on New London in 1781 get all the press, but there were a…