The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis
byBOOK REVIEW: The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis by Brady J. Crytzer (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2023) In late July 1794,…
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How the (First) West Was Won: Federalist Treaties that Reshaped the Frontier
byFrom November 1794 to October 1795, President George Washington’s administration brokered three separate treaties with Britain, Spain, and the Confederated Tribes of the Ohio…
“No Man Knows the Country Better”: The Frontier Life of John Gibson
byBOOK REVIEW: No Man Knows This Country Better”: The Frontier Life of John Gibson by Gary S. Williams (University of Akron Press, 2022) The…
Ill-Fated Frontier
byBOOK REVIEW: Ill-Fated Frontier: Peril and Possibilities in the Early American West by Samuel A. Forman (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2021) Samuel A. Forman, author of Dr….
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This Week on Dispatches: Jonathan Curran on Public Opinion and the Whiskey Rebellion
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews USMA instructor and JAR contributor Jonathan Curran on his research into how public opinion about those…
Examining Public Opinion during the Whiskey Rebellion
byThe Whiskey Rebellion often falls into the background of the Federalist Era, overshadowed by the rise of a divisive two-party political system. This armed…
The Politics and Iconography of Tammany in the Early American Republic
byOn the morning of Saturday, July 14, 1804 the funeral cortège for Alexander Hamilton proceeded northward to Trinity Church where the former Revolutionary War…
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Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 1 of 2
byWhen the American Revolution began, the Virginia Colony faced not one military-territorial contest, but four. Its ousted Royal governor, Lord Dunmore, was in the…
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The Revolutionary Language and Behavior of the Whiskey Rebels
byThe image of a nation united in the aftermath of the American Revolution, content with hard-fought for and hard-won independence, is largely a grade…
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Did Yellow Fever Save the United States?
byTo Thomas Jefferson, great plagues were within the genus of republican antibodies. Like the occasional popular insurrection that warned rulers “the spirit of resistance”…