About This Book

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 2025, presents the journal’s best historical research and writing over the past calendar year. The volume of thirty-five articles 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.

This year’s articles are:

A Kingly Government? Benjamin Franklin’s Great Fear by Ray Raphael
A Second Fight for Freedom: The enslaved of Dr. James Craik, Chief Physician by Michael M. Wood
A Smart Engagement: A Whaleboat Fight off Stamford, Connecticut, June 24, 1778 by Selden West
The Athletic John Adams by Jack Campbell
Bacheller vs. Wilkinson: The Quest to Understand Benedict Arnold at Saratoga by Colin J. Wood
The Battle at The Village: Alabama’s Miniature Bunker Hill by Anthony Roney II
The Battle of Kings Mountain: New Insights from Forgotten Documents by Jim Piecuch
Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys by Philip D. Weaver
Cato: A Tragedy: The Enduring Theatrical Mystery at Valley Forge by Shawn David McGhee
Champions of Liberty: Phillis Wheatley, Joseph Sewall, and the Old South Church by Joseph Manca
Charles Turner: One Soldier, Three Armies by Todd W. Braisted
Constitutions and the Rule of Law: Ten Voices from America’s Founding Period by Jett Conner
Construing Congress’s Hasty, Ill-fated 1775 Decision to Invade Canada by Gene Procknow
Don Diego de Gardoqui: Hero of the Revolution, Schemer Against the Republic by Tyson Reeder
Dr. Warren’s Crucial Informant by J. L. Bell
Eight Clues: Recovering a Life in Fragments, Arthur Bowler in Slavery and Freedom by Jane Lancaster
German Soldier, American Rebel: Christopher Ludwick’s Pursuits of Happiness in Revolutionary Pennsylvania by Shawn David McGhee
The Great Pillars of John Adams by Geoff Smock
Guilty as Charged: Convicting Vermont’s First Governor by Gary Shattuck
Henry Clinton’s Plan to End the War by Gene Procknow
Isaac Shelby, Patrick Ferguson, and Fire & Sword: The Power of a Good Story by William Caldwell
John Warren’s Loss of His Brother Joseph Warren by Salina B. Baker
Liberty and Property: Cash Africa’s American Revolution by Tim Abbott
Love, American (Revolution) Style: the Romances of Otho Holland Williams by Derrick E. Lapp
Major Peter Charles L’Enfant: Artist and Engineer of the Revolution by Douglas R. Dorney, Jr.
The Moses Ogden Myth: Misremembering the Battle of Connecticut Farms by Tim Abbott
Parliament and the American Revolution: The British Perspective by David Otersen
The Physical Challenges of Major General Nathanael Greene by Salina B. Baker
Ramsour’s Mill, June 20, 1780: The End of Cornwallis’ Loyalist Illusion by Scott Syfert
Rediscovering Charles Thomson’s Forgotten Service to Early American Historiography by Daniel L. Wright
The Story of Isaac Bissell—and the Legend of Israel Bissell by J. L. Bell
The Terrible Ordeal of Capt. Bezaleel Beebe’s Company of Connecticut State Levies by Tim Abbott
Top 10 Battle of Bunker Hill Quotes by Katie Turner Getty
Top 20 Wartime Quotations from the Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox by Phillip Hamilton
Two Soldiers, a Cask of Wine, and Thou(sand Lashes) by Don N. Hagist

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, British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution, and The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.