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Dear Reader:
I wanted to let you know that, going forward, I plan to limit my blogging to providing informational links that may be of interest to others in regard to the Revolution and Founding Era (including my own efforts), rather than crafting original substantive content about such subject matter. I’ve been doing the latter since the inception of this website in August 2020; and to be honest, at this point, the motivation to continue that effort is simply not there. That said, I will always like to write, so we’ll see what else can be done to scratch a persistent itch.
To be clear, this is not a total shutdown, but certainly a retrenchment. Please accept my deepest thanks for tuning into this platform and my best wishes in your pursuit of what I have been trying to provide for the past five years—engaging, informed, and myth-busting reading about the people, places, and events that defined young America’s exploratory path. Frankly, the relative paucity of reader feedback has made it difficult for me to judge how successful the effort was (or not), but then again, maybe that’s my answer.
And in case you’re interested . . .
— My new book, Winning the Ten Crucial Days, is reviewed by Kelsey DeFord in the Journal of the American Revolution (JAR) here.
— Also, an article of mine, “John Haslet: Service and Sacrifice in the Revolution,” will appear in the Spring/Summer Issue of The Journal of America’s Military Past, the scholarly, peer-reviewed publication of the Council on America’s Military Past (CAMP), which contains in-depth monographs on military history. The narrative is a spinoff from my third book, John Haslet’s World. You can’t access it electronically unless you’re a CAMP member; however, if you’d like to see the article, shoot me a request at dpauthor64@gmail.com, and I’ll send you a copy once the issue is published.
That’s it for now. Enjoy the rest of your summer.
dp