Sarah Naramore is Assistant Professor of History at Northwest Missouri State University. This interview is based on her new book, Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic (University of Rochester Press, 2023). JF: What led...
Jordan E. Taylor is a writer and editor who has published in the Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, and more. This interview is based on his new book, Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary...
Steven Elliott is Part-time Lecturer of History at Rutgers University-Newark. This interview is based on his new book, Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington’s Army during the American Revolution (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Surviving...
In The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America I wrote about Philip Vickers Fithian’s response to cannon fire from the British warship HMS Rose: On July 11 [1776] Philip passed through...
Bruce Stewart is Associate Professor of History at Appalachian State University. This interview is based on his new book, Redemption from Tyranny: Herman Husband’s American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write Redemption from Tyranny? BS: I first...
Shannon Bontrager is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Highlands College. This interview is based on his new book, Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921 (University of Nebraska...
Cole Jones is Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University. This interview is based on his new book, Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). JF: What led you to...
T.H. Breen is William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. This interview is based on his new book, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America (Belknap Press, 2019). JF: What led you to write The Will of...
What? You’ve never heard of Fort Roberdeau? Here is some info from Wikipedia: Fort Roberdeau, also known as The Lead Mine Fort, is a historic fort located in Tyrone Township outside Altoona, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1778, during the American Revolution and was occupied until 1780....
Carlton Larson is Professor of Law at University of California Davis School of Law. This interview is based on his new book, The Trials of Allegiance: Trials, Juries, and the American Revolution. (Oxford University Press, 2019) JF: What led you to write The...
Lindsay Shakenbach Regele is Assistant Professor of History at Miami University. This interview is based on her new book, Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019). JF: What led you to...
Albert Louis Zambone is an independent historian and writer. This interview is based on his new book Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life (Westholme Publishing, 2018). JF: What led you to write Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life? AZ: a. I was asked to write it....
The good folks at the American Revolution Round Table of Central Pennsylvania have informed me that David L. Preston, author of Braddocks’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution, will be the speaker at its August 2018...
Over at Boston 1775, J.L. Bell tells the story of Dr. James Thacher at the Battle of Springfield, New Jersey in June 1780. As someone who has written a bit about homesickness, I was attracted to this part of Bell’s...
This is the title of the newest exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Learn more about it in Alice George‘s piece at Smithsonian.com. Here is a taste: A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in...
Here is J.L. Bell at Boston 1775: Last month Dennis Baron, a professor of English and linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, published an op-ed essay in the Washington Post on the language of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Two new databases of...
Craig Bruce Smith is Assistant Professor of History at William Woods University. This interview is based on his new book American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). JF: What led...
Yesterday we posted an Author’s Corner interview with Stephen Brumwell, author of Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty. Over at The Weekly Standard, Gordon Wood reviews the book. Here is a taste: It was once common knowledge, the story...
Stephen Brumwell is a freelance writer and independent historian based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This interview is based on his new book Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty (Yale University Press, 2018). JF: What led you to write Turncoat?...
In 1774 the Continental Congress told Americans to avoid card playing: We will, in our several stations, encourage frugality, economy, and industry, and promote agriculture, arts and the manufactures of this country, especially that of wool; and will discountenance and...
