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Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

African Americans in the American Revolution

Editor’s note: Originally published in JAR in May 2013, this important article about the contribution of African Americans to our nation’s liberty was written by the late Thomas Fleming (1927–2017). African Americans participated in the American Revolution from its first day. That is another reason why it is shameful that for a long time, they […]

by Thomas Fleming

Posted on August 17, 2016August 28, 2016

Who Killed General Agnew? Not Hans Boyer.

Part of the highly revisionist history of the American Revolution that developed in nineteenth century was an apparent obsession with identifying individual sharpshooter heroes who had brought down key individuals during the war’s important battles. Never mind that no one made any such claims when the events actually occurred, no forensic techniques existed to analyze […]

by Don N. Hagist