The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2015 , 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 studies. The sixty articles in the 2015 edition How Samuel Adams Recruited Sons of Liberty by J. L. Bell A Patriot– Playing Both Sides by Todd W. Braisted How Old Were Redcoats? Age and Experience of British Soldiers in America by Don N. Hagist The Great West Point Chain by Hugh T. Harrington Raid Across the The British Operation to Capture Washington by Benjamin Huggins So Heavy a The Burning of New York’s First Capital by Jack Kelly An Elegant Dinner with General Washington at Valley Forge Headquarters by Nancy K. Loane Mount A Landscape for the New Cincinnatus by Joseph Manca The British Spy Plot to Capture Fort Ticonderoga by John A. Nagy The Top Ten British Losers by Andrew O’Shaughnessy Honorable Lords and Pretend Sorting Out the Noblemen of the American Revolution by Jim Piecuch Paul Revere’s Other Riders and Rides by Ray Raphael William Lee and Oney A Look at George Washington and Slavery by Mary V. Thompson.
Todd Andrlik, founder and editor of Journal of the American Revolution (allthingsliberty.com), is curator, author and editor of Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News (Sourcebooks, 2012), named Best American Revolution Book of the Year by the New York American Revolution Round Table. Featuring hundreds of high-definition color newspaper images and analysis from three dozen historians, the one-of-a-kind single volume lets readers experience the Revolution the way the colonists did—as it unfolded in their very own town newspapers. “This is ‘you are there’ history at its best,” wrote American History magazine in its review. A full-time marketing and media professional, Andrlik has written or ghost-written thousands of published articles on various business topics. His history-related work has been featured by Huffington Post, Slate, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, NPR, C-SPAN, CNN, Mount Vernon, American Revolution Center, Old State House and Fraunces Tavern Museum. Follow Todd on Twitter @RagLinen, and for more information, please visit beforehistory.com.
A lively compendium of newly researched American Revolution topics
By Gene Procknow - June 16, 2016
Interesting people, battles and other events of the American Revolution come to life with this compendium of 50 plus articles. Each of the 5- 8 page articles provides interesting new interpretations, thought provoking conclusions and is supported by extensive primary research. The book format invites both use in original research projects and end-to-end reading.
In full disclosure, my article on the "Top Ten American Loyalist Officers" is included in the book. This article describes the oft omitted impact of loyalists officers and military units on major campaigns and battles. Some of these officers were as capable as their highly celebrated and remembered patriot counterparts and provided significant assistance to the British efforts to suppress the rebellion.
The book is especially relevant for those readers who seek to understand what it was like to have lived in revolutionary times!