About This Book

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 of forty articles 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

DON N. HAGIST is managing editor of the Journal of the American Revolution. An expert on the British army in the American Revolution, he is the author of many books and articles, including Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution, British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution, and The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Praise for the Journal of the American Revolution:

“The Journal of the American Revolution is an exciting experiment that benefits from the combined efforts of independent scholars and professional historians dedicated to re-examining the history of this country’s founding.” —Gregory J. W. Urwin, prize-winning historian, Temple University