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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…
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Loyalist “Banditti” of Monmouth County, New Jersey: Jacob Fagan and Lewis Fenton
byWhile brutal internecine warfare was waged in various sections of New Jersey, nowhere in the state were the effects both in length and degree…
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A Fatal Dispute Among the Guards
byThe British evacuation of Philadelphia had been under way for several days. Given the honor to be among the last units to leave, the…
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Congress’s “Committee on Spies” and the Court-Martial Policies of General Washington
byIn the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already hard at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the…
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Contingencies, Capture, and Spectacular Getaway: the Imprisonment and Escape of James Moody
byOne of the most famous or notorious of Tory partisans in the American Revolution was the New Jersey soldier and spy James Moody. Moody…
This Week on Dispatches: Eric Wiser on the Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield
byOn 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,…
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If George Washington had not Run for President . . . ?
byThis month we asked our contributors: If George Washington had not run for President in 1789, who would you like to have had as…
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The Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield: Loyalist Partisan of the American Revolution
byThe war for all practical purposes was over when hostilities ended with a cease fire negotiated by the Americans, British, French, and Spanish in…
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America’s Revolution Against Toleration: The Rise of True Religious Liberty
byIn 1793, a widely circulated American editorial observed, “A few years ago, to say of any man that he was ‘a friend to toleration,’…