How America Declared its Rights
byDuring the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century the political philosophers of Europe were writing and discussing some new and radical ideas on…
During the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century the political philosophers of Europe were writing and discussing some new and radical ideas on…
While brutal internecine warfare was waged in various sections of New Jersey, nowhere in the state were the effects both in length and degree…
The British evacuation of Philadelphia had been under way for several days. Given the honor to be among the last units to leave, the…
In the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already hard at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the…
One of the most famous or notorious of Tory partisans in the American Revolution was the New Jersey soldier and spy James Moody. Moody…
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Eric Wiser tells the fascinating story of notorious Loyalist partisan and British spy, Cornelius Hatfield,…
This month we asked our contributors: If George Washington had not run for President in 1789, who would you like to have had as…
The war for all practical purposes was over when hostilities ended with a cease fire negotiated by the Americans, British, French, and Spanish in…
In 1793, a widely circulated American editorial observed, “A few years ago, to say of any man that he was ‘a friend to toleration,’…