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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 2021, 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 and Founding Era studies. The thirty-four articles in the 2021 edition are:

Alexander Hamilton’s Missing Years: New Insights into the Little Lion’s Caribbean Childhood by Ruud Stelten and Alexandre Hinton

The Lenape Origins of an Independent America: The Catalyst of Pontiac’s War, 1763–1765 by Kevin A. Conn

Countervailing Colonial Perspectives on Quartering the British Army by Gene Procknow

The Sons of Liberty and Mob Terror by Jeffrey D. Simon

A “Truly Noble” Resistance: The Sons of Liberty in Connecticut by Dayne Rugh

A Moonlighting British Army Surgeon by Gene Procknow

An Economist’s Solution to the War: Adam Smith and the

Rebelling Colonies by Bob Ruppert

Ethan Allen’s Mysterious Defeat at Montreal Reconsidered by Mark R. Anderson

Who Said, “Don’t Fire Till You See the Whites of Their Eyes” by J. L. Bell

Smoking the Smallpox Sufferers by Katie Turner Getty

The Revolutionary Origins of the Whistleblower Law by Louis Arthur Norton

How Did John Adams Respond to Abigail’s “Remember the Ladies”? by Jane Hampton Cook

Opposing the Franco-American Alliance: The Case of Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot by Richard J. Werther

Longhouse Lost: The Battle of Oriskany and the Iroquois Civil War by Brady J. Crytzer

A Demographic View of North Carolina Militia and State Troops, 1775–1783 by Douglas R. Dorney, Jr.

Minorcans, New Smyrna, and the American Revolution in East Florida by George Kotlik

The American Revolution Sees the First Efforts to Limit the African Slave Trade by Christian M. McBurney

What Killed Prisoners of War?: A Medical Investigation by Brian Patrick O’Malley

Tapping America’s Wealth to Fund the Revolution: Two Good Ideas That Went Awry by Tom Shachtman

The Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield: Loyalist Partisan of the American Revolution by Eric Wiser

General Isaac Gregory’s Fictitious Treason by Michael Cecere

Stony Point: The Second Occupation, July–October 1779 by Michael J. F. Sheehan

Outbreak! New York, 1779 by Don N. Hagist

The Mysterious March of Horatio Gates by Andrew Waters

“Mad Anthony”: The Reality Behind the Nickname by Michael J. F. Sheehan

The British Invade Nicaragua by George Kotlik

Mapping the Battle of Eutaw Springs: Modern GIS Solves a Historic Mystery by Stephen J. Katzberg

Attack Up the Connecticut River: The First British Raid on Essex by Matthew Reardon

Revolutionary Revenge on Hudson Bay, 1782 by Merv O. Ahrens

The Framers Debate Impeachment by Ray Raphael

The Constitutional Convention Debates the Electoral College by Jason Yonce

The Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793: Ten Observations and Lessons by Brian Patrick O’Malley

Thomas Jefferson and the Public Benefit of Epidemics by Geoff Smock

Did Yellow Fever Save the United States? by Geoff Smock

Presidential Power: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase by Jett B. Conner

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 (Westholme 2012) and The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs (Westholme 2015). 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