Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution

This week our guest is JAR contributor Colin Zimmerman. In June of 1778, British forces marched in pursuit of George Washington, but we’re delayed by Patriots at Crosswicks Creek. It was a small battle with great implications. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is JAR contributor Joseph E. Wroblewski. Annis Boudinot Stockton was a premiere poet of her day, and kept regular correspondence with General George Washington. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com  

This week our guest is JAR contributor Aaron J. Palmer. In 1775 the Revolutionary politics of South Carolina came to a boiling point when Henry Laurens and John Faucheraud Grimke challenged one another to a duel. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor Victor J. DiSanto. For years, mystery and controversy have surrounded the captors of Major John Andre. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com  

This week our guest is author Nancy Rubin Stuart. Despite his impressive actions, Benjamin Franklin's public role took a terrible toll on his marriage to Deborah Read. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor Samuel T. Lair. During the earliest days of the republic, states became laboratories of experimentation regarding how to implement laws which the Constitution left vague. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor Neil C. Olsen. As a leading philosopher, educator, and theologian of his day, Connecticut’s Samuel Johnson exercised great sway in early America. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is author and JAR contributor Todd W. Braisted. During the occupation of New York, Patriot commander Israel Putnam played a game of psychological warfare when he attempted to lure German auxiliaries to the rebel side. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor Lt. Col. Brian Koyn. Because of his voluminous writings and notes, a reliable profile of George Washington's emotional intelligence has produced important new findings. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor Derrick E. Lapp. The new town of Williamsport, MD made a push to be the nation's capital, and although it did not succeed it made an admirable attempt. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com

This week our guest is author and JAR contributor Christian McBurney. On the eve of Revolution a NC slaver tried to transport an enslaved family south. The legislature of Rhode Island stopped it in a major step toward emancipation and abolition. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is JAR contributor David Price. Edward Hand rose from an immigrant, to a surgeon, to a Adjutant General of the Continental Army. His career earned him high marks, and he began one of Washington's most trusted subordinates. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor James M. Smith. Charles Thomson analyzed treaties between America and the Delaware Nation. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor M. Andrew Holowchak. Thomas Jefferson wrote on many of the most important topics of his day, and had strong opinions of each. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is James M. Deitch. In the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson enumerated his grievances against the Crown in clear terms. They were each written with purpose and to great effect. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guests are JAR contributors Patrick Hannum and Fred Kienle. In an expansive letter, General George Washington detailed his perspectives on all manner of military matters. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is JAR Managing Editor Don N. Hagist. While the nation celebrated the Patriot victory at Concord on March 19th, few historians have taken the time to examine the British soldiers who fought on the other side. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is JAR contributor Travis Copeland. In the war for North Carolina, the attack on Fort Johnston stands as a watershed moment. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is JAR contributor Timothy C. Hemmis. The American west was vital part of the revolutionary cause, but a unpredictable and often violent place. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com

This week our guest is JAR contributor George Kotlik. While East Florida was open for settlement, it was a dangerous proposition for newcomers. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is author and JAR contributor Eugene Procknow. In his new book "William Hunter: Finding Free Speech: A British Soldier's Son Who Became an Early American" Procknow highlights the dramatic and dynamic world of early America, and a man who benefitted from it. For more information and a full review visit www.allthingsliberty.com . 

This week our guest is JAR contributor Mark R. Anderson. Long before the famed destruction of King George’s statue in New York, his bust was defaced in Montreal. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is JAR contributor Joseph Solis-Mullen. While few Americans were aware of it, the global geopolitics of Europe played a major role in deciding the outcome of their revolution. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.  

This week our guest is JAR contributor Kenneth E. Lawson. George Whitefield revolutionized religion in Colonial America, and became one of the famous people on the continent. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com

This week our guest is JAR contributor Alexander Lenarchyk. While Washington wrote about the state of the war, he contemplated a personal asylum in the event that his army was defeated. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.