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 […]
Category Archives: American Revolution
The Battle of Brooklyn – The Revolutions most under recognized and misreported battle!
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 […]
Revolutionary Exploits of Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox
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 […]
Reconsidering Two Colorful Revolutionary Reputations
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 […]
How do you know a Great Book?
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! […]
Examining Intimate Revolutionary Relationships
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 […]
Unmasking Gender Influences in the American Revolution
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 […]
A Review: Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
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 […]
Revolutionary Reputations Revisited
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 […]
Overcome but not Vanguished -A highly successful Loyalist Regiment during the American Revolution
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 […]
