About This Book

The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2018, presents the journal’s best historical research and writing over the past calendar year. The volume is designed for institutions, scholars, and enthusiasts to provide a convenient overview of the latest research and scholarship in American Revolution studies. The thirty-eight articles in the 2018 edition are:

Country Crowds in Revolutionary Massachusetts: Mobs and Militia by Ray Raphael

“The Man Unmasked”: Henry Laurens, Egerton Leigh and the Making of a Revolutionary by Aaron J. Palmer

John Adams: Portrait of the Founder as a Young Schoolmaster by Geoff Smock

Cornwallis and the Autumn Campaign of 1780: His Advance from Camden to Charlotte by Ian Saberton

James Abercrombie, Much Lamented Victim of Friendly Fire at Bunker Hill by Don N. Hagist

Displaced: The Donation People of 1775 by Katie Turner Getty

Anxiety and Distress: Civilians Inside the Siege of Boston by Alexander R. Cain

Preventing Slave Insurrection in South Carolina and Georgia, 1775–1776 by Jim Piecuch

A Republic of Wool: Founding Era Americans’ Grand Plans for Sheep by Brett Bannor

Francis Dana and America’s Failed Embassy to Russia by Bob Ruppert

The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Plundering of Johnson Hall by Philip D. Weaver

The Setauket Raid, December 1777 by Phillip R. Giffin

Lafayette—An Acerbic Tongue or Incisive Judge of Character by Gene Procknow

William Bingham—Forgotten Supplier of the American Revolution by Richard Werther

General George Washington: Diplomat by Benjamin L. Huggins

Elite Regiment, Delinquent Behavior by Joshua Shepherd

Benjamin Franklin: “Our Salvation Depends on You” by Bob Ruppert

The “P” is for Profit: Revolutionary War Privateers and the Slave Trade by Mike Thomin

Joseph Addison’s Cato: Liberty on the Stage by Eric Sterner

The Remarkable Spanish Pilgrimage of John Adams by John L. Smith, Jr.

Under Appreciated Allies: Choctaws, Creeks, and the Defense of British Florida, 1781 by Jim Piecuch

The Complex Character of John Paul Jones and His Polite Home Invasion by John L. Smith, Jr.

Admiral Rodney Ousts the Jews from St. Eustatius by Louis Arthur Norton

North Carolina Patriot Women Who Talked Back to the Tories by Hershel Parker

Major Patrick Ferguson—A Fresh Look by Wayne Lynch

George Washington Tells a Lie by Benjamin L. Huggins

The French Bread Connection by Tom Shachtman

We Have Sacrificed Our All by Conner Runyan

Terror on the Frontier: The Grim Ordeal of Delilah Corbly by Joshua Shepherd

Benedict Arnold’s Phantom Duel by John Knight

Benjamin Franklin and Judaism by Shai Afsai

Anti-Indian Radicalization in the Early American West, 1774–1795 by Darren R. Reid

Experience, Policies Failures: President Washington and Native Americans by Geoff Smock

The Proposed Alliance of the Knights of Malta and the United States of America by Bruce Ware Allen

Washington’s Farewell Advice to the Nation by Eric Sterner

Thomas Paine, Deism, and the Masonic Fraternity by Shai Afsai

Understanding Thomas Jefferson’s Reactions to the Rise of the Jacobites by Zachary Brown

The Tireless Pension Pursuit of Bristol Budd Sampson by Robert N. Fanelli

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 British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution and The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs.

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