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The JAR 2019 Book-of-the-Year Award Finalists

The Journal of the American Revolution is pleased to announce the five finalists for the 2019 JAR Book-of-the-Year Award. In alphabetical order: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777  by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company) Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution by John […]

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Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals

Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals by Stephen R. Taaffe. Campaigns and Commanders Series, Volume 68. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019). Selection, promotion and performance of Revolutionary War generals is a critically under-researched aspect of the rebellion. In his second book on the Revolutionary War, Stephen R. Taaffe closes this gap in scholarship with his evaluation of […]

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