The Year’s Best Articles from the Leading On-Line Source of New Research on the American Revolution and Founding Eras
The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2020
, 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-six articles in the 2020 edition include:
Bernard E. Griffiths: Trumpeter Barney of the Queen’s Rangers, Chelsea Pensioner—and Freed Slave
by Todd W. Braisted
The Declaration of Independence: Did John Hancock Really Say that about his Signature?—and Other Signing Stories
by J. L. Bell
Les Habitants: Collaboration and Pro-American Violence in Canada, 1774-1776
by Sebastian van Bastelaer
Misadventures in the Countryside: Escape from a British Prison Ship
by Katie Turner Getty
The Revolutionary Memories of New York Loyalists: Thomas Jones and William Smith, Jr.
by Cho-Chien Feng
The East India Company and Parliament’s “Fateful Decision” of 1767
by Steven Neill
Massachusetts Privateers During the Siege of Boston
by Alexander Cain
The Constitution Counted Free Women and Children—And It Mattered
by Andrew M. Schocket, with Kinzey M. McLaren-Czerr and Colin J. Spicer
How Magna Carta Influenced the American Revolution
by Jason Yonce
Putting a Price on Loyalty: Mary Loring’s List of Losses
by John Knight