Major General Horatio Gates – An Incomplete View
Rising to the second highest general in the Continental Army, Horatio Gates is little regarded among the Revolutionary War generals and remains an enigma in most historical accounts. At […]
Rising to the second highest general in the Continental Army, Horatio Gates is little regarded among the Revolutionary War generals and remains an enigma in most historical accounts. At […]
My vote for the most under recognized and misreported battle in the American Revolution goes to the Battle of Brooklyn. Even its name is misreported as many historians refer to […]
Book Review: The Swamp Fox – How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution by John Oller (Da Capo Press, October, 2016) Books abound which assert various Patriot leaders at some […]
Today, I am going to speak about two of our more colorful, but controversial revolutionary leaders. One is well known and one is not. Both of them entered the Revolutionary […]
A sure fire way to answer this question is looking for books that sell more used than they did new. It is a simple measure of standing the test of time! […]
Unquestioningly, people assume that intimate relationships among the sexes in Revolutionary America were what we commonly refer to today as puritanical. Well that might have been the reality at one […]
Often, historians focus too heavily on military campaigns and political activities when interpreting the American Revolution. In doing so, they miss important cultural, social and demographic trends which greatly influenced […]
By Sebastian Galliani and Gustavo Torrens National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 22724 October 2016 http://www.nber.org/papers/w22724 A Review Combining academic disciplines often lead to innovative and interesting new […]
A lecture on Analyzing Revolutionary Reputations Many instances, contemporary participants and later historians differ in their views of the reputations of key Revolutionary War figures. This lecture examines the pre […]
Book Review The Queen’s American Rangers Donald J. Gara (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015 Contrary to popular belief, significant fighting in the American Revolution took place between rebel and loyalist […]