About This Book

The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2019, 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-eight articles in the 2019 edition are:

Join, or Die: Political and Religious Controversy Over Franklin’s Snake Cartoon by Daniel P. Stone

John Adams Lists Abigail’s Faults and Abigail Replies! by John L. Smith, Jr.

The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee by John Concannon

The “Parson’s Cause:” Thomas Jefferson’s Teacher, Patrick Henry, and Religious Freedom by John Grady

Creating American Nationalists: Presbyterians and the War for Independence by William Harrison Taylor

Franklin’s Secret Efforts to Bring about Reconciliation by Bob Ruppert

The Route is by Way of Winnisimmet: Chelsea and the Refugees by Katie Turner Getty

The General, the Corporal, and the Anecdote: Jacob Francis and Israel Putnam by J. L. Bell

The Death and Resurrection of Major John André by John Knight

The Connecticut Captivity of William Franklin, Loyalist by Louis Arthur Norton

Norfolk, Virginia, Sacked by North Carolina and Virginia Troops by Patrick H. Hannum

Finding Edward Wigglesworth’s Lost Diary by C. E. Pippenger

William Taylor: Loyalist Refugee in East Florida by George Kotlik

Revisiting the Prayer at Valley Forge by Blake McGready

The First Countries to Diplomatically Recognize the United States by John L. Smith, Jr.

Women on Trial: British Soldiers’ Wives Tried by Court Martial by Don N. Hagist

A Curious “Trial” on the Frontier: Zeisberger, Heckewelder, et. al. vs. Great Britain by Eric Sterner

A Loyalist’s Response to the Franco-American Alliance: Charles Inglis’s “Papinian” Essays by Jim Piecuch

Grace Galloway—Abandoned Loyalist Wife by Richard Werther

Benedict Arnold’s Master Plan for (British) Victory by John Knight

The Strange Case of “Charles de Weissenstein” by Richard Werther

China and the American Revolution by Simon Hill

Allen McLane—Revolutionary War Intelligence Officer and Spy by Ken Daigler

Elias Boudinot IV: America’s First Commissary General of Prisoners by Joseph Wroblewski

Compelled to Row: Blacks on Royal Navy Galleys during the American Revolution by Charles R. Foy

John the Painter: Terrorist for America by Lars Hedbor

How to be a Revolutionary War Spy Master by Don N. Hagist

Pierre Landais, the War’s Most Enigmatic Naval Captain by Louis Arthur Norton

An American Sea Captain Encounters Horatio Nelson—And Lives to Tell the Tale by David D. Kindy

Slavery Through the Eyes of Revolutionary Generals by Gene Procknow

Our Man in Minorca: Lewis Littlepage, American Volunteer with the Spanish Armed Forces by Larrie D. Ferreiro

Patrick Tonyn: Britain’s Most Effective Revolutionary-Era Royal Governor by Jim Piecuch

The Most Extraordinary Murder by Chaim M. Rosenberg

Moravians in the Middle: The Gnadenhutten Massacre by Eric Sterner

Who Picked the Committees at the Constitutional Convention? by David O. Stewart

A Second Bonaparte: Searching for the Character of Alexander Hamilton by Steven C. Hertler

Elias Hasket Derby: The Privateer Who Pioneered the Russian Trade by Nick Deluca

Jefferson’s Reckoning: The Sage of Monticello’s Haunting Final Years by Geoff Smock

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 British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution and The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs.

Praise for the Journal of the American Revolution:

“The Journal of the American Revolution is an exciting experiment that benefits from the combined efforts of independent scholars and professional historians dedicated to re-examining the history of this country’s founding.” —Gregory J. W. Urwin, prize-winning historian, Temple University