Journal of the American Revolution 2021: Annual Volume

by Don N. Hagist

Overview

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 include: 
Alexander Hamilton’s Missing Years: New Discoveries and 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
Impeachment: The Framers Debate and Discuss by Ray Raphael
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
The Mysterious March of Horatio Gates by Andrew Waters
Minorcans, New Smyrna, and the American Revolution in East Florida by George Kotlik
Stony Point: The Second Occupation, July-October 1779 by Michael J. F. Sheehan
A Demographic View of North Carolina Militia and State Troops, 1775-1783 by Douglas R. Dorney, Jr.
The Revolutionary War Origin of the Whistleblower Law by Louis Arthur Norton
Mapping the Battle of Eutaw Springs: Modern GIS Solves a Historic Mystery by Stephen John Katzberg

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594163616
Publisher:	Westholme Publishing
Publication date:	05/14/2021
Edition description:	1
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

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 (Westholme 2020), The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs (Westholme 2015), and British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution (Westholme 2012).  

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction ix

Alexander Hamilton's Missing Years: New Insights into the Little Lion's Caribbean Childhood Ruud Stelten Alexandre Hinton 1

The Lenape Origins of an Independent America: The Catalyst of Pontiac's War, 1763-1765 Kevin A. Conn 11

Countervailing Colonial Perspectives on Quartering the British Army Gene Procknow 27

The Sons of Liberty and Mob Terror Jeffrey D. Simon 33

A "Truly Noble" Resistance: The Sons of Liberty in Connecticut Dayne Rugh 42

A Moonlighting British Army Surgeon Gene Procknow 52

An Economist's Solution to the War: Adam Smith and the Rebelling Colonies Bob Ruppert 59

Ethan Allen's Mysterious Defeat at Montreal Reconsidered Mark R. Anderson 69

Who Said, "Don't Fire Till You See the Whites of Their Eyes" J. L. Bell 79

Smoking the Smallpox Sufferers Katie Turner Getty 90

The Revolutionary Origins of the Whistleblower Law Louis Arthur Norton 97

How Did John Adams Respond to Abigail's "Remember the Ladies"? Jane Hampton Cook 103

Opposing the Franco-American Alliance: The Case of Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot Richard J. Werther 113

Longhouse Lost: The Battle of Oriskany and the Iroquois Civil War Brady J. Crytzer 124

A Demographic View of North Carolina Militia and State Troops, 1775-1783 Douglas R. Dorney, Jr. 134

Minorcans, New Smyrna, and the American Revolution in East Florida George Kotlik 147

The American Revolution Sees the First Efforts to Limit the African Slave Trade Christian M. McBurney 153

What Killed Prisoners of War?: A Medical Investigation Brian Patrick O'Malley 188

Tapping America's Wealth to Fund the Revolution: Two Good Ideas That Went Awry Tom Shachtman 201

The Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield: Loyalist Partisan of the American Revolution Eric Wiser 207

General Isaac Gregory's Fictitious Treason Michael Cecere 221

Stony Point: The Second Occupation, July-October 1779 Michael J. F. Sheehan 225

Outbreak! New York, 1779 Don N. Hagist 236

The Mysterious March of Horatio Gates Andrew Waters 241

"Mad Anthony": The Reality Behind the Nickname Michael J. F. Sheehan 256

The British Invade Nicaragua George Kotlik 261

Mapping the Battle of Eutaw Springs: Modern GIS Solves a Historic Mystery Stephen J. Katzberg 272

Attack Up the Connecticut River: The First British Raid on Essex Matthew Reardon 290

Revolutionary Revenge on Hudson Bay, 1782 Merv O. Ahrens 297

The Framers Debate Impeachment Ray Raphael 307

The Constitutional Convention Debates the Electoral College Jason Yonce 317

The Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793: Ten Observations and Lessons Brian Patrick O'Malley 327

Thomas Jefferson and the Public Benefit of Epidemics Geoff Smock 341

Did Yellow Fever Save the United States? Geoff Smock 344

Presidential Power: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase Jett B. Conner 349

Author Biographies 357

Index 363