Journal of the American Revolution 2024

The year’s best articles from the leading on-line source of new research on the Revolution and Founding erasThe Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2024, 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.  ContentsBy Stratagem and Hard Fighting: The Improbable Capture of Eleven British Ships by Mark R. AndersonRemember Baker: A Green Mountain Boy’s Controversial Death and Its Consequences by Mark R. AndersonJohn Hancock’s Politics and Personality in Ten Quotes by Brooke BarbieThe Return of Samuel Dyer: An Attempted Assassination in Revolutionary Boston by J. L. BellThe Secrets of Samuel Dyer by J. L. BellTwo Encounters: Captain Abraham Van Dyck, the ”Negro Man,” and Prince Pitkin by Benjamin L. CarpThe French Army in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1781–1782 by Michael CecereThe Delcastle Cannonball by Walter A. ChiquioneThomas Paine on Popular Government in America: Evolution of a Radical’s Thinking by Jett ConnerHow the (First) West Was Won: Federalist Treaties that Reshaped the Frontier by Brady J. CrytzerGeorge Washington’s Information War by Benjamin GeorgeBritish Soldiers Wounded at Eutaw Springs by Don N. HagistEmily Geiger’s Fabulous Ride by C. Leon, Harris, Harriet Imrey, Conner RunyanThomas Jefferson and the Conditions of Good History: Writing About the American Revolution by Andrew M. HolowchakMercy Otis Warren: Revolutionary Propagandist by Jonathan HouseCaptain James Morris of the Connecticut Light Infantry by Chip LangstonDanger at the Breach by Doug MacIntyreAttended with Disagreeable Consequences: Cross-Border Shopping for Loyalist Provisions, 1783–1784by Stuart Lyall MansonSmallpox 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 McGheeGeorge Washington’s “Rules of Civility”: An Early American Literary Mystery by Shawn David McGheeReframing George Washington’s Clothing at the Second Continental Congress by Shawn David McGheeJohn 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 NortonAlgernon Sidney and the American Revolution by David OtersenEutaw Springs and the Ambiguity of Victory by David PriceCharles Lee—The Continental Army’s Most Prolific Essayist General by Gene ProcknowCharles Lee’s First Inklings of Fractious American Political Battles by Gene ProcknowThe 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 RobisonWilliam Walker Crosses Kings Ferry by Michael J. F. SheehanEarly Presidential Elections: The Questionable Use of Electors to Correct Voter Imbalances by Marvin L. SimnerThe Purpose of the Electoral College: A Seemingly Endless Controversy by Marvin L. SimnerCaptain Luke Day: A Forgotten Leader of ”Shays’s Rebellion” by Scott M. SmithEngaging the Glasgow by Eric SternerSmallpox by Inoculation: The Tragedy of New York’s Rosewell Beebe by Philip D. WeaverThe “Western Forts” of the 1783 Treaty of Paris by Richard J. WertherClark versus Livingston: Pettiness, Paper Money, and Elections by Eric WiseBurlington 1776: The Forgotten Opportunity by Colin Zimmerman