Journal of the American Revolution 2024

The year's best articles from the leading on-line source of new research on the Revolution and Founding eras The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2024, presents the journal's best historical research and writing over the past calendar year. The volume is designed for institutions, scholars, and enthusiasts to provide a convenient overview of the latest research and scholarship in American Revolution and Founding Era studies. Contents By Stratagem and Hard Fighting: The Improbable Capture of Eleven British Ships by Mark R. Anderson Remember Baker: A Green Mountain Boy's Controversial Death and Its Consequences by Mark R. Anderson John Hancock's Politics and Personality in Ten Quotes by Brooke Barbie The Return of Samuel Dyer: An Attempted Assassination in Revolutionary Boston by J. L. Bell The Secrets of Samuel Dyer by J. L. Bell Two Encounters: Captain Abraham Van Dyck, the "Negro Man," and Prince Pitkin by Benjamin L. Carp The French Army in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1781-1782 by Michael Cecere The Delcastle Cannonball by Walter A. Chiquione Thomas Paine on Popular Government in America: Evolution of a Radical's Thinking by Jett Conner How the (First) West Was Won: Federalist Treaties that Reshaped the Frontier by Brady J. Crytzer George Washington's Information War by Benjamin George British Soldiers Wounded at Eutaw Springs by Don N. Hagist Emily Geiger's Fabulous Ride by C. Leon, Harris, Harriet Imrey, Conner Runyan Thomas Jefferson and the Conditions of Good History: Writing About the American Revolution by Andrew M. Holowchak Mercy Otis Warren: Revolutionary Propagandist by Jonathan House Captain James Morris of the Connecticut Light Infantry by Chip Langston Danger at the Breach by Doug MacIntyre Attended with Disagreeable Consequences: Cross-Border Shopping for Loyalist Provisions, 1783-1784by Stuart Lyall Manson Smallpox Threatens an American Privateer at Sea by Christian McBurney "The Modern American Wallace: " Relics, Revolutions, and Revolutionaries by Shawn David McGhee "Those Noble Qualities" Classical Pseudonyms as Reflections of Divergent Republican Value Systems by Shawn David McGhee George Washington's "Rules of Civility" An Early American Literary Mystery by Shawn David McGhee Reframing George Washington's Clothing at the Second Continental Congress by Shawn David McGhee John Adams and Nathanael Greene Debate the Role of the Military by Curtis F. Morgan, Jr. The Perfidious Benjamin Church and Paul Revere by Louis Arthur Norton Algernon Sidney and the American Revolution by David Otersen Eutaw Springs and the Ambiguity of Victory by David Price Charles Lee--The Continental Army's Most Prolific Essayist General by Gene Procknow Charles Lee's First Inklings of Fractious American Political Battles by Gene Procknow The Highs and Lows of Ethan Allen's Reputation as Reported by Revolutionary-Era Newspapers by Gene Procknow "Earned By Veteran Intrepidity" Spencer's Ordinary, June 26, 1781 by Conor Robison William Walker Crosses Kings Ferry by Michael J. F. Sheehan Early Presidential Elections: The Questionable Use of Electors to Correct Voter Imbalances by Marvin L. Simner The Purpose of the Electoral College: A Seemingly Endless Controversy by Marvin L. Simner Captain Luke Day: A Forgotten Leader of "Shays's Rebellion" by Scott M. Smith Engaging the Glasgow by Eric Sterner Smallpox by Inoculation: The Tragedy of New York's Rosewell Beebe by Philip D. Weaver The "Western Forts" of the 1783 Treaty of Paris by Richard J. Werther Clark versus Livingston: Pettiness, Paper Money, and Elections by Eric Wise Burlington 1776: The Forgotten Opportunity by Colin Zimmerman