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Quartering British Forces on Long Island
bySubstantial numbers of British and Hessian troops needed to be housed in New York City and across Long Island during the years of the…
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The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of King George III
byBOOK REVIEW: The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of King George III by Andrew Roberts (New York: Viking, 2021) In 1774, a…
This Week on Dispatches: Serena Zabin on The Boston Massacre: A Family History
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian, author, and JAR Book-of-the-Year Award winner, Serena Zabin on her book, The Boston Massacre: A…
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Countervailing Colonial Perspectives on Quartering the British Army
byIn the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, as the British Army repositioned its forces from western frontier posts into American cities, many…
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The Grand Affray at Golden Hill: New York City, January 19, 1770
byDespite the rescission of the Stamp Act in 1766, many imperial controversies persisted in New York City. Leading among them were: The annual demands of…
2019 Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award Announced
byThe Journal of the American Revolution is pleased to announce Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution by…
This Week on Dispatches: Dean Caivano on American Colonists’ Growing Resistance to Tyranny
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews Dean Caivano, Lecturer of Political Science at California State University, Stanislaus, on the growing resistance to tyranny as colonists…
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The Fear of Domination: Resistance Against Tyranny
byThe threat of continued oppression and an encroaching condition of slavery was central to the American colonists’ call for separation from Great Britain and…
This Week on Dispatches: John G. McCurdy on the Quartering Act
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and author John G. McCurdy, professor of history at Eastern Michigan University, about the quartering act,…
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Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution
byQuarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution by John Gilbert McCurdy (Cornell University Press, 2019) Question: “Why did…
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“Intolerable Acts”
byI started with an innocent question about the British Parliament’s Quartering Act of 1774: Did American Patriots list that law as one of the…