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Announcing the 2025 JAR Book of the Year Award!

by Editors

Since 2014, the Journal of the American Revolution has recognized the new adult nonfiction volume that best mirrors the mission of the journal with...

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Critical Thinking

February 10, 2026

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: The Present Status of the Controversy

by Scott Syfert

May 2025 will bring the 250th anniversary of a unique if obscure Revolutionary war event in Charlotte, North Carolina: the much beloved, much maligned,...

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Reviews

February 9, 2026

Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England

by Timothy Symington

BOOK REVIEW: Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England by Gloria McCahon Whiting. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press,...

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Prisoners of War

February 5, 2026

The Monmouth County Gaol and the Jailbreak of February 1781

by Michael Adelberg

As the Revolutionary War began, the fledgling Continental and state governments were faced the huge burden of holding and provisioning thousands of captured enemy...

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Postwar Politics (>1783)

February 3, 2026

The New Dominion: The Land Lotteries

by Gabriel Neville

Brevet Major General Peter Muhlenberg woke up in the ruins of Fort Littleton on the morning of March 6, 1784, mounted his horse, and...

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