Henry and Lucy Knox sacrificed family, home, and beliefs to adopt their new American identity. In late...
American Revolution
In the summer of 1776, Boston offered smallpox inoculation to everyone and required those who declined to...
Three American Revolutionaries your textbooks never told you about. Joseph Harris Not all enslaved Americans of the...
Here he was a living legend—a pristine icon of the most glorious days of the Revolution. From Hero...
When people fled the new United States in the 18th century, they were taken in by the...
Did a black-robed regiment really exist during the American Revolution, or was it just a myth? The...
The ring was tasked to provide General Washington information on British Army operations in New York City....
Refusing to lead a military coup against the Continental Congress in 1783 put the new nation on...
Joseph Warren’s political activism began with his writings about the Stamp Act, and he began to be...
Loyalist individuals were inspired to action or inaction by a variety of motives, only some of which...
When their cause was defeated, about 15 percent of the Loyalists (65,000–70,000 people) fled to other parts...
The departure of royal officials, rich merchants, and landed gentry destroyed the hierarchical networks that thrived in...
A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America’s War of Independence. Introduction We think we know...
What do the ghosts of that bloody history whisper to us now? At this moment that feels...
Mackintosh played a key role in riots and other events related to the protest and eventual repeal...
These acts worked, inadvertently, towards unifying colonists against British policy. Abstract The purpose of my project is...
It can be traced, in part, to the Enlightenment and its profound impact on colonial thinking. Political...
The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia in what is now Vermont in the decade prior...
Soldiers were typically yeoman farmers with a sense of honor and status and an ideological commitment to...
The term has also been applied to various later civilian paramilitary forces trying to recall the success...
Women spies of the American Revolution. Introduction Throughout the Revolutionary War, there are stories of heroism; those...
An 18th-century guide taught Americans how to eat simply but sumptuously. By Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald...
These men fled to a variety of destinations, including modern-day Canada, the Caribbean, and France. I’m investigating...
Why aren’t Delaware and Georgia included and why did he combine four northeastern colonies into one? The...
Corroborating Prudence’s wartime adventures is difficult. Introduction Prudence Patterson was born in 1743 (either in Wales or...
Great Britain hoped that the Intolerable Acts would isolate radicals in Massachusetts and cause American colonists to...
While tremendously popular in Britain, George was hated by rebellious American colonists. Introduction George III (George William...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
Washington’s crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night 1776 led to victory, but terrible weather led to...
The British chancellor and exchequer and his soldier sibling pushed the interests of the empire at the...