They have 3 recent books that look interesting: Benedict Arnold's Army, Arthur Lefkowitz; Fusiliers (regimental history of Royal Welch Fusiliers),...
Just read an alternate-history story in which Burr is president and starts the war with England earlier. It's told entirely in letters, newspaper...
http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2007/08/index.html (start with the August 19th entry) These are 7 or 8 well-written and lengthy articles,...
"Part of the battle on Jan. 3, 1777, was waged on 22 acres of gently sloping farmland now owned by the Institute for Advanced Study. The...
September 6, 1776: First use of submarine in war. The "American Turtle" unsuccessfully attacks British fleet off Staten Island...
"'The papers of Sir William Johnson' published in 14 volumes, including a General Index, were edited under the direction of the New York State...
There must be a lot of "Revolution Day-by-Day" timelines and calendars out there, both printed and online. Does anyone have any favorites? I was...
A Revolutionary comic book hero, the Black Coat: http://www.the-black-coat.com/about_v3.htm I work near a comic book store so I'll check it out...
A New Jersey Star-Ledger article says: "The Continental Army and the Redcoats may have to go at each other with baseball bats in New Jersey....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/nyregion/27george.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin The story involves Liberty Hall, which is the museum to visit...
I'm going to visit Jamestown for the 400th Anniversary soon and plan to stop at Yorktown too. In preparation, I'm reading up. There's a glut of new...
For anyone who might want to read accounts of this battle/"skirmish", there are some primary and secondary sources extracted at Pelham's historian's...
In December 2005 I visited the Saratoga battlefield park. One of the last things I saw before leaving was Breymann's redoubt, the scene of fierce...
I'm reading The Burning of Washington, by Anthony Pitch. It starts off with a really loud bang, as Pitch breathlessly gives a blow-by-blow account of...
I'm reading Muller's "Darkest Day," about the 1814 Washington/Baltimore events. This book and Elting's "Amateurs, to Arms!" have lively descriptions...
It seems that there are references to this regiment in every book I've read that has anything to do with the Northern campaigns of either the...
Has anyone read his early 20th century novels on the Revolution in New York State? According to the Swiggett book on the Tory Butlers, War Out of...
I'm reading Howard Swiggett's War Out of Niagara, about the infamous Tory leaders John and Walter Butler, and in several quoted letters a "Fort...
This company (http://www.scholarsbookshelf.com) has a lot of recent reprints of American Revolution military history books, most published in the...
Knowing nothing about WO1812 except for a vague memory of learning about impressment in 7th grade history, recently I took the plunge and read two...
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