American War of Independence

Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. (1734 - 1778) was a respected medical man and civic leader in colonial Boston who was accused of being an agent for the Br...

The life of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary War general who attempted to surrender West Point to the British in 1780, didn't end aft...

The 30th North Carolina Infantry is the story of civilian-soldiers and their families during the Civil War. This narrative follows a regiment of Ca...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexa...

On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New Londo...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight. With those words, the Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his pulpit,...

Taking into account the key events of the French and Indian War, this book shows the American Revolutions progress in glorious contemporary maps an...

A riveting narrative of a New England slave boy caught up in the American Revolution A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, w...

Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handli...

The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2018, presents the journals best historical research and writing over the past calendar year....

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on ve...

This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not train...

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and ac...

The multi-faceted Revolutionary War career of Benjamin Tallmadge included operations as a dragoon commander, intelligence and counter-intelligen...

First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander. It provides a uniq...

This book presents profiles of sixteen individuals born and raised in countries other than America who voluntarily joined the revolutionary caus...

By all accounts, Sally Townsend of Oyster Bay was a very attractive young lady - petite, vivacious, intelligent and remarkably beautiful. But her l...

The tactic of kidnapping enemy leaders, used in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, dates to the American Revolution. George Washington cal...

Founded in 2012, the Journal of the American Revolution has provided educational, peer-reviewed articles by more than 75 historians and experts on ...