This Week on Dispatches: Jane L. Green on the Story of Thomas Ditson
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Jane L. Green on her research into the life of Thomas Ditson, a man…
Yankee Doodle
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Thomas Ditson: Puritan to Bumpkin to Patriot
byThe status of Thomas Ditson, Jr., as a minor hero of the American Revolution has more to do with the perception that he was…
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Satirizing the Revolution through Popular Song
byThink of Revolutionary War lyrics. Does a ditty about a dandified bumpkin out on the town come to mind? “Yankee Doodle” was just one…
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A Short History of “Yankee Doodle”
byThe first version of “Yankee Doodle” seems to have been written by a British army physician, Dr. Richard Schuckberg, during the French and Indian…
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Alcohol to Zealotry: The Revolution A to Z (Part 2)
byContinued from yesterday. Read A to Z first. M is for mobilization. Revolutionary authorities became masters of mobilizing resources at a local level to…
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Alcohol to Zealotry: The Revolution A to Z (Part 1)
byOne of the great ideals of the American Revolution was the notion that political authority derives from the will of the governed. Of the…