Did a black-robed regiment really exist during the American Revolution, or was it just a myth? The...
War of Independence
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...
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...
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...
Two wives of the American Revolution – one a patriot, one a spy. By Victoria Cooney Lucy...
Examining some myths about women during the Revolutionary War and trying to find the truth. We all...
An 18th-century guide taught Americans how to eat simply but sumptuously. By Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald...
They may not have been hosting a cookout, but they did know how to imbibe and celebrate....
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...
Many colonists viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their constitutional rights. Introduction The Intolerable Acts...
While tremendously popular in Britain, George was hated by rebellious American colonists. Introduction George III (George William...
Today, Benedict Arnold’s name is synonymous with treason, betrayal, and defection. Introduction Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741...
Bancroft’s activity as a double agent was not revealed until 1891, when British diplomatic papers were released...
Even after his death in 1790, Franklin remained an American celebrity. Introduction Born in Boston on January...
It was not new ideas but old ones that led the colonists to revolt and form a...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
Something went dangerously wrong at Fort Ticonderoga during that bitter cold winter as the Revolutionary War was...
Warren was an eloquent, persuasive polemicist who died a martyr at Bunker Hill. By Michael McQuillan “I’m...
The British chancellor and exchequer and his soldier sibling pushed the interests of the empire at the...