Allan Kulikoff's provocative new book traces the rural origins and growth of capitalism in
America, challenging earlier scholarship and charting a new course for future studies in …

BY TRACING George Washington's deliberate development from colonial planter and
soldier to republican icon, Paul Longmore answers the riddle of Washington's simultaneous …

For more than a century and a half, from 1607 to 1763, Britain and France struggled to
master the eastern half of North America. They fought five blood-soaked wars and …

This review examines recent work on the ideology, culture, and socio-economic composition
of early American militaries down to 1815. A fresh place has been given to the role of a …

Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians,
entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they …

“In former times,” wrote Daniel Defoe at the end of the 17th century,“there was no difference
between the Citizen, the Souldier, and the Husband-man; but 'tis otherwise now, Sir, War is …

American exceptionalism–the constitutive myth of American national identity–has been
disseminated through literature, film, and foreign policy. This article analyzes another site …

In the fall of 1775, George Gilmer, friend and physician to Thomas Jefferson and himself a
member of the gentry ofAlbemarle County, Virginia, wrote an address to his neighbors …

AFTER an extraordinary debate, even for an extraordinary time, legislators in the Virginia
General Assembly in the fall of 1780 came up with a startling offer to needy whites in the …

F OR the past thirty years, historians have been investigating the social origins of the men
who served in the armed forces during the formative years of the United States, from the …