Prisoners of the Revolution

 In last weeks of December 1776 and most of January 1777, British military commander Lt. Gen. Sir William Howe released about 2,200 American...

In 1776, the Continental Congress  ordered  Esek Hopkins, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy, to treat prisoners "well a...

With our recollection of the dead and compassion for the grieving, we should make room for remembering what America should continue to be. ...

Check out my recent article in the  Journal of the American Revolution , entitled " America's Revolution Against Toleration: The R...

Thank you also to anyone who read my article "' Under God :' Understanding Its Revolutionary Usage,"  Journal of the Amer...