Loyalist Trails

August 2020

Loyalist Trails 2020-33

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:57:47-05:00August 16th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-33: August 16, 2020

In this issue:
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge: It Was a Very Good Year!
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 5), by Stephen Davidson
– Donation Tax Receipts
– When Did the American Revolution Begin?
– Book: On The Loyalist Trail: Loyalist History of Nova Scotia
– Book About General Peter Muhlenberg
– JAR: A Painter Abroad: John Singleton Copley Writes to His Wife
– Ben Franklin’s World: The British Are Coming
– Pins, the Georgian Post-It Used by Jane Austen
– “Horrid Scenes of Villainy”: The Stamp Act Protest of August […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-32

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:59:38-05:00August 9th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-32: August 9, 2020

In this issue:
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 4), by Stephen Davidson
– The Life of Stephen Watts, by Gavin Watt
– Comment About “Longhouse Lost: The Battle of Oriskany and the Iroquois Civil War”
– JAR: A “Truly Noble” Resistance: The Sons of Liberty in Connecticut
– JAR: A Visit to Fort Mifflin on the Delaware
– The Launch of the Massachusetts Spy
– King’s Chapel Interior Color Schemes & Georgian Architecture
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
+ National Trust for […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-31

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:02:35-05:00August 2nd, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-31: August 2, 2020

In this issue:
– A Universal Despair and Phrenzy: A Loyalist’s letter of August 1782
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Clarifying Two Widows Named Grant
– JAR: Longhouse Lost: The Battle of Oriskany and the Iroquois Civil War
– Book About Philip Eamer Family: Three River Valleys Called Home
– Boston 1775: Safe No Where But In His House
– The Enslavement of African People in Canada (c. 1629-1834)
– Those Mysterious 18thc Masks
– How Much Did 18Th-Century Women Know About Their Clothes?
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-30

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:04:48-05:00July 26th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-30: July 26, 2020

In this issue:
– Ontario Celebrates Emancipation Day on August 1
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Richard Carpenter: Barber and Swimmer
– The Female Food Riots of the American Revolution
– UELAC Committees and Projects
– Would You Help The Virtual Application Committee?
– Uniting the States: The Papers of John Adams, Volume 20
– Book: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World
– JAR: The Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War
– JAR: Certain British and British American Actors […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-29

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:08:50-05:00July 19th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-29: July 19, 2020

In this issue:
– British Columbia ‘Loyalist Day’
– The View from Here: Stephanie Seal-Walters, PhD Candidate
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 8
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 1), by Stephen Davidson
– The American Revolution in the Eyes of Other Countries
– Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax NS, a Loyalist Resting Place
– JAR: Creating Order: Rufus King and the Nascent American Republic
– Borealia: Teach my Research: Food, Colonization, and Religion in New France
– The Junto: Hunting Shirts, Backcountry Culture, and “Playing Indian” in the American RevolutionA
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-28

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:10:15-05:00July 12th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-28: July 12, 2020

In this issue:
– The View from Here: Zoe Louise Jackson, MA Student, UNB Fredericton
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 7 – We Did It!
– A Reality Check for Loyalist Stereotypes, by Stephen Davidson
– Webinar on Demand: 1774, The Long Year of Revolution
– Unclaimed Runaways and the Power Struggles of Colonial Haiti
– JAR: The Fall of Fort Washington: The “Bunker Hill Effect”?
– JAR: L’Expédition Particulière crosses the Atlantic: The French Rally to the American Cause
– JAR: Did Yellow Fever Save the United States?
– Newmarket men stepped up to […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-27

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:10:59-05:00July 5th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-27: July 5, 2020

In this issue:
– The View from Here: Kelly A. Grant, PhD candidate, Concordia University
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 6
– Decoding the Book of Negroes (Part 4 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– Coronavirus, BLM, and Trump: What Hidden Secret of July 4th Can Save Us?
– Loyalist Quarterly Newsletter, June 2020, by Paul J. Bunnell, UE
– Deborah Sampson: The Female Soldier
– Teaching American History With NYPL Digital Collections: Revolutionary New York
– Book: The Rebel and the Tory: Ethan Allen, Philip Skene, and the Dawn of Vermont
– JAR: Lessons […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-26

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:11:53-05:00June 28th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-26: June 28, 2020

In this issue:
– The View from Here: Jonathan Bayer, PhD Student, UNB
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 5
– Everything’s Coming Up Roses
– Decoding the Book of Negroes (Part 3 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– A Loyalist Petitions For Equal Treatment For Black Loyalists
– Canada and the American Revolution
– JAR: Reasons Against the Renewal of the Sugar Act (Part 3)
– JAR: Tower of Victory
– National Trust for Canada: Celebrating the Vitality of the French Language in Canada
– Eliza Hamilton as the Heroine in a Lesson on “Deceitful […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-25

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:13:06-05:00June 21st, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-25: June 21, 2020

In this issue:
– The View from Here: Richard Yeomans, PhD Student, UNB
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 4
– Decoding the Book of Negroes (Part 2 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– “Don’t Fire Till You See The Whites Of Their Eyes.”
– JAR: Reasons Against the Renewal of the Sugar Act (Part 2)
– JAR: Williamsburg Becomes an Armed Camp, 1775
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Radical German Loyalism in the American Revolution
– June is National Indigenous History Month
– Yet We Are Men: African Americans Fight for Freedom and Equality After the […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-24

Admin CCG2021-11-29T18:15:13-05:00June 14th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-24: June 14, 2020

In this issue:
– Loyalist Day in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Edmonton, Alberta
– An Inconvenient Truth, by Stephen Davidson
– Why UELAC Scholarship Matters
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 3
– Decoding the Book of Negroes (Part 1 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– The Myth of Intolerance of Loyalists
– Beaver Harbour NB Abolishes Slavery
– Fort Erie ON Mayor on Racism
– JAR: Reasons Against the Renewal of the Sugar Act (Part 1)
– Book Review: Sailing Under John Paul Jones: The Memoir of Continental Navy Midshipman Nathaniel Fanning
– Borealia: Introducing Loyalist […]