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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer&nbsp;interviews historians and JAR contributor&nbsp;Michael Cecere. In his new book United for Independence: The American Revolution in the…Though he played a significant role in British victory at the Battle of Camden August 16, 1780, the leadership of Lt. Col. Francis, Lord…BOOK REVIEW: The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America&nbsp;by Cynthia Kierner (University of Virginia Press, 2023) Linda K. Kerber’s Women…BOOK REVIEW: Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778 by Norman E. Donoghue II. )Penn State University Press 2023) This carefully researched book…On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer&nbsp;interviews JAR contributor William H. J. Manthorpe on the Dewees family and their contributions to the Patriot cause….BOOK REVIEW:&nbsp;United for Independence: The American Revolution in the Middle Colonies, 1775-1776 by Michael Cecere (Yardley, Pa.: Westholme, 2023) In the American Revolutionary War,…On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer&nbsp;interviews JAR contributor Eric Wiser on the bitter political rivalry between Abraham Clark and William Livingston. New episodes…BOOK REVIEW: The Charles Asgill Affair: Setting the Record Straight&nbsp;by Anne Ammundsen (Heritage Books, 2023) What happened to British officer Charles Asgill at the…Nathanael Greene is rightly remembered as one of the great combat leaders of the American Revolution. But he was also a deep political thinker,…John Adams said of his Whig contemporaries that they had views as “various as the Colors of their Cloths.”[1] Such was the paradigm in…Information has been as powerful a weapon as any in the history of warfare. Modern militaries continue to grapple with the power of information…BOOK REVIEW: American Traitor: General James Wilkinson’s Betrayal of the Republic and Escape from Justice&nbsp;by Howard W. Cox (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023)…BOOK REVIEW:&nbsp;Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City by Christopher F. Minty&nbsp;(Ithaca [New York]: Cornell…Early in 1814, thirteen years into his retirement, John Adams received a bizarre letter from Thomas McKean, a former colleague in the First and…BOOK REVIEW: Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution&nbsp;by Eli Merritt (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2023) In many ways, the…BOOK REVIEW: In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America by Jacqueline Beatty (New York University Press, 2023) When we think of…Located at the junction of the Acushnet River and thedeep waters of Buzzards Bay, the New Bedford and Fairhaven area became a hub for…BOOK REVIEW: East Florida in the Revolutionary Era 1763-1785&nbsp;by George Kotlik (Athens, GA: NewSouth Books, University of Georgia Press, 2023) Historian and JAR contributor…BOOK REVIEW: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation 1765-1795&nbsp;by Edward J. Larson (New York, NY: WW Norton &amp; Company,…John Adams was making his way from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania for a convening of the delegates tasked to craft a response to the Coercive…On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer&nbsp;interviews JAR contributor Mike Matheny on the highs and lows of General Horatio Gates’s career and reputation. New…It is axiomatic that the American victory at Saratoga was, aside from events at Yorktown, the pivotal military event of the American Revolution. The…On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer&nbsp;interviews JAR Associate Editor and historian, J. L. Bell on Samuel Dyer, a person few have heard of,…On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer&nbsp;interviews JAR Associate Editor and historian, J. L. Bell on Samuel Dyer, a person few have heard of,…Between heroes like George Washington and villains like Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War was full of historical actors of all stripes. But one man…As recounted in a previous article, in October 1774 a sailor named Samuel Dyer returned to Boston, accusing high officers of the British army…Imagine what it would be like to visit London during the waning days of the American Revolution, to hear about attitudes of British officers…After the French and Indian War, or the Seven Years War as it was known in Europe, Spain and France began to plan for…BOOK REVIEW: Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America by Jordan E. Taylor (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) Almost…Two motions had already been brought forth in the House of Commons to end the war with England’s American colonies. The first occurred on…Dressed in defiance, Col. George Washington arrived at each session of the Second Continental Congress donning a new buff and blue uniform he helped…In the 1760s and through 1775 John J. Zubly was the leading Whig in Georgia. He wrote a number of sermons and political tracts…Georgia did not send a delegation to the first Continental Congress in 1774. The least populous colony of the thirteen British colonies in North…Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), a French philosopher, once said that the definition of a traitor was “a patriot whose cause was lost.” In the time…On December 12, 1781, a motion to end the war with the American colonies and to grant them their independence&nbsp;was introduced in the House…Like a rock dropped into a smooth pond, the American Revolution spread ripples across the European world. French and Spanish entry into the war…During the Revolutionary War, several men refused commissions as generals in the Continental Army. Seth Pomeroy and John Whitcomb were unable to accept the…BOOK REVIEW: The Battle of Gloucester 1777 by Garry Wheeler Stone and Paul W. Schopp (Yardley, PA: Westhome Publishing, 2022) Garry Wheeler Stone’s and…Following the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, the House of Commons began to debate whether or not the war…

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer&nbsp;interviews historians and JAR contributor&nbsp;Michael Cecere. In his new book United for Independence: The American Revolution in the…Though he played a significant role in British victory at the Battle of Camden August 16, 1780, the leadership of Lt. Col. Francis, Lord…BOOK REVIEW: The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America&nbsp;by Cynthia Kierner (University of Virginia Press, 2023) Linda K. Kerber’s Women…BOOK REVIEW: Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778 by Norman E. Donoghue II. )Penn...

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