Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution

This week our guest is Michael Gadue. To expedite the capture of the Hudson River during the summer of 1777, British naval engineers began the construction of a new vessel on Lake Champlain. Called Thunderer, this ship was a classic French-style radeau and was capable of carrying not just men, but heavy artillery as well. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com. 

This week our guest is Michael J.F. Sheehan. Widely considered to be one of the most daring and important battles of the war, the attack on Stony Point remains shrouded with mystery and legend. New research has shed new light on this seminal event, and historians' understanding of the battle continues to grow. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com. 

This week our guest is George Kotlik. Although they are not counted as part of the "thirteen original" colonies, the colonies of East and West Florida were a very important part of British North America before the Revolution began. Throughout the conflict they remained loyal to King George, and were given over to the Spanish at its conclusion. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is Fort Lee Historic Park's Charles Dewey. During the American Revolution, intelligence gathering was heavily dependent on intelligence gathering by spies on both sides of the war, and on this episode our guest highlights the life and career of one of the few double agents in the American Revolution. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com. 

This week our guest is distinguished journalist and historian Harlow Giles Unger. Robert Morris played a critical role in financing the American Revolution, and in addition developed strategies and techniques of trade that remain at the core of capitalism today. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

In this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR contributor and Delaware historian Kim Burdick about the The First State and its often overlooked contribution to the outcome of the American Revolution. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com. 

In this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor and Seattle-area middle school history teacher Geoff Smock about how Alexander Hamilton’s difficult childhood experiences in the Caribbean helped shape his future political ideology. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week’s our guest is history writer and translator Gina Dimuro.  Our focus is on a fascinating tour of the New York City and New Jersey that Alexander Hamilton would have known. A surprising number of buildings and features remain from the period, although many would not be obvious to the casual visitor. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is Todd Braisted.  Braisted discusses his remarkable discovery of a slave who was emancipated by John Graves Simcoe, commander of the Loyalist regiment, Queen’s Rangers, who went on to distinguish himself in battle, and ended up as a free man with a pension in England. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

This week our guest is Cho-Chien Feng. While the war raged along the eastern seaboard, for the families and communities of upstate New York it devolved into a brutal civil war. Feng discusses how these political fissures first appeared and what they meant to the people involved. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.