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This site explores the military history and general history of Canada and the United States from 1607-1815. Major focus of this site will be on the French and Indian War (1754-1763) and American Revolution (1775-1783). The authors may include historians o
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Review of David Hackett Fischer’s Washington’s Crossing
Fischer, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. David Hackett Fischer has written a remarkable book on one of the more important events of the American Revolution: the Battle of Trenton, placing that bat...
BATTLE OF FALLEN TIMBERS CONFIRMS AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE-PART II
Continued from Part I The US Constitution proved a remarkably forward-thinking document for its day, encoding individual liberties. Many historians state that the delegates used the ancient Roman republic and Greek democracy for their examples. W...
Review of Founding Fighters
This review will appear in an upcoming issue of On Point. Cate, Alan C. Founding Fighters: The Battlefield Leaders Who Made American Independence. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006. 264pp. ISBN: 0-275-98707-8 $49.95 Founding...
The Decisive Battles of the Frontier
My apologies for the long break between posts. The last post discussed a good series from the History Channel in its early days before it sold out to ratings. The series Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest examined the lives of four individuals im...
TV Documentary on the Legends of the Frontier
I must state that I believe that The History Channel has declined in quality over the years. When it started, the programming was of a higher quality. Then, the channel began to over emphasize the World War II period (not that this time is not import...
Review of The First Way of War by John Grenier
I wrote the following review for On Point: The Journal of Army History and it will appear in an upcoming issue. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. By John Grenier. Cambridge University Press, 2005. i-xiv, 232 Pp. F...
Thoughts on the PBS Documentary “The War That Made America”
My apologies for not keeping up with this site, but I hope to keep up with it, as I am reviewing a book dealing with the period, and I hope to get other writers involved. I have been meaning to write something about the documentary “The War Tha...
A late, great colonial historian worth reading
Every now and then, an author comes around that is worth reading, even after death. Howard Peckham is that author. Peckham, who died in 1995 served as both a history professor at the University of Michigan and director of the Clements Library fro...
