Jeffrey A. Denman

Key Quaker diarist in Philadelphia On the day the British landed in Maryland, another event was revealing itself that would have catastrophic consequences for Quakers. On August 25, 1777, the Continental Congress received an unusual letter from Major General John Sullivan. Three days prior, while on Staten Island, Sullivan had searched the baggage of one of his officers whom he believed had defected to British lines. Sullivan reported that he “found a Number of papers of Inte

"The Testimony of the People Called Quakers," January 24, 1775 The new year began as the old one had ended—with more controversy. Christopher Marshall recorded in his diary on January 2, 1775, that there were "meetings daily amongst the Quakers," and on January 5, the Meeting for Sufferings, effectively their executive council, issued an epistle from their meeting not only "to act agreeable to the peaceable principles and testimony we profess" but also because "some public re

Thaddeus Kosciuszko, one of the most understated names of the American Revolution, came to mind today as I was thinking about some of the...

Of the little known of Greene’s accomplishments in the Southern theatre, his attempt to restore civil government in a war-torn region is...

Sometimes the best stories are those lurking behind the bigger stories. That’s what I found as the genesis of this book took form in my ...