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The American Revolution came as a fire storm. No section of America was untouched or unaltered. The British Colonists who were in open rebellion…
After the French and Indian War the British government made a number of decisions with respect as to how it would govern its North…
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From November 1794 to October 1795, President George Washington’s administration brokered three separate treaties with Britain, Spain, and the Confederated Tribes of the Ohio…
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In the fall of 1796, just months before George Washington’s presidency ended, thirty-six-year-old Revolutionary War veteran Johnson Cook (1760-1848), a Connecticut native, petitioned the…
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George Washington’s appointment as commander of the Continental Army filled him with doubt from the start. In his address to the Continental Congress on…
The settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of…
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Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, in the first half of the eighteenth century, and John Taylor of Caroline in the 1790s, both feared that…
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In the wake of the Seven Years’ War in North America, the costly British triumph seemed complete. Thus, when a coda to the Seven…
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In 1774, as tensions between colonials and Native Americans living along the upper Ohio River grew, settlers either fled east of the mountains or…
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During the American Revolution, British-allied Native Americans raided American homesteads and settlements all along the Ohio Valley. As the war progressed, the increased frequency…
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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Eric Sterner about the Gnadenhutten Massacre, the murder of ninety-six Delaware Indians—men, women, and children—at a…