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Last spring, the Varnum Memorial Armory Museum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, announced its discovery of a handwritten letter from a formerly enslaved man…
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Women in all states won the universal right to vote one hundred years ago through the ratification of the United States Constitution’s 19th Amendment…
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As adopted by the Constitutional Convention, Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution mandated that the population numbers forming the basis for…
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Dispatches can now be easily accessed on the JAR main menu. Host Brady Crytzer discusses historian Todd Braisted’s remarkable discovery of a slave who…
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The period of the American Revolution does not afford many accounts of individual rank and file soldiers’ exploits, particularly on the side British side….
JAR: In a nutshell, can you give us a basic overview of The General’s Cook? RG: The General’s Cook is about George Washington’s enslaved chef, Hercules,…
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As the colonies of South Carolina and Georgia moved closer to open rebellion against Great Britain in the summer of 1775, leaders of the…
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The American Revolutionary War was fought largely by armies on the North American continent, however, like waves in a pond the conflict inevitably rippled…
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George Washington was a slave owner for his entire life, a fact that surprises many of his fellow citizens more than 200 years after…
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Could the new nation have thrived economically if slavery had been abolished when the colonies won independence? Probably would have thrived even more. …
George Rockingham Gilmer wrote a heroic saga of the life, service, and sacrifices of Austin Dabney, an African American Georgia Revolutionary War hero. He…