Some 18th-century history today: Yesterday I was reading the minutes of the Spring 1754 meeting of the New Jersey General Assembly held in Perth Amboy. The meeting opened with a message from royal governor Jonathan Belcher urging the Assembly to...
Peter Macleod is Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Canada. This interview is based on his new book, Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution (Knopf, 2016). JF:...
Over at Borealia, Daniel Laxer, a recent Ph.D from the University of Toronto, argues convincingly that music was an important part of the soldier experience in the Seven Years War. He concludes: Military musicians and their instruments were crucial to...
Len Travers is Chair of the History Department at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. This interview is based on his new book, Hodges’ Scout: A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). JF: What led you to...
From the C.V. Starr Website: MOUNT VERNON, VA—One of the nation’s largest literary awards, the annual George Washington Book Prize, has been awarded to Stephen Brumwell for George Washington: Gentleman Warrior (Quercus, 2012). An independent historian and award-winning author who...
Teachers: This looks like a great opportunity. Speakers include Will Tatum of the David Library, Paul Mapp of the College of William & Mary, and Len Travers of the University of Massachusetts. From the Fort Ticonderoga website: Fort Ticonderoga is...
In yesterday’s “Sunday Night Odds and Ends,” I linked to an interesting article on French and Indian War reenacting written by Nick Kowalczyk and published at Salon. Kowalczyk takes a Tony Horwitz (Confederates in the Attic) approach to writing about...
