Hugh T. Harrington

Hugh was a co-founder of the Journal of the American Revolution, an online magazine containing innovative and new insights into the War. The Journal also produces an annual hardcover volume that gives prominence and permanence to the authors' most resourceful articles. Hugh was co-editor of the first annual.

For insights into Hugh's interest in the American Revolution, see http://allthingsliberty.com/2015/04/contributor-close-up-hugh-t-harrington.

Publications in the Journal of the American Revolution:

• First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His — and the Nation’s — Prosperity, February 2016.
• The Spirit of ’74, How the American Revolution Began, October 2015.
• The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs, March 2015.
• Invading America: The Flatboats that Landed Thousands of British Troops on American Beaches, March 2015.
• Tides and Tonnage: A Different Take on the Boston Tea Party, March 2015.
• “The Sale of the Hessians” and the Franklin Legend, February 2015.
• William Washington, American Light Dragoon: A Continental Cavalry Leader, February 2015.
• The Bermuda Powder Raids of 1775, November 2014.
• Propaganda Warfare: Benjamin Franklin Fakes a Newspaper, November 2014.
• Anthony Wayne’s 1782 Savannah Campaign, October 2014.
• The Return of George Washington 1783-1789, October 2014.
• The Great West Point Chain, September 2014.
• Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence, September 2014.
• For Love of the Footnote, July 2014.
• "Light Horse Harry" Lee in the War for Independence, June 2014.
• The Men Who Lost America, April 2014.
• Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, March 2014.
• Ambushed! Victim’s Bones at Fort Laurens, February 2014.
• The Long Shot of September 1776, October 2013.
• The History of Parson Weems, September 2013.
• Bows and Arrows - Pikes and Spears, September 2013.
• Was General Anthony Wayne Murdered?, August 2013.
• The Inaccuracy of Muskets, July 2013.
• Charles Willson Peale’s “Riffle with a Tellescope to it”, July 2013.
• Washington and the Final British Campaign for the Hudson River, 1779, July 2013.
• Mary Silliman's War, June 2013.
• Battle Wounds: Never Pull an Arrow Out of a Body, May 2013.
• How to Treat a Scalped Head, May 2013.
• 9 Questions with Author Nathaniel Philbrick, April 2013.
• Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick, April 2013.
• The Myth of Rifleman Timothy Murphy, March 2013.
• Unleashing the Dogs of War, March 2013.
• British Soldiers, American War - Voices of the American Revolution, February 2013.
• Liberty Tavern, February 2013.
• Private Yankee Doodle by Joseph Plumb Martin, February 2013.
• The Essential American Revolution Library, February 2013.
• Revolutionary War 101: Beginning Books, February 2013.
• Top 10 Revolutionary War Novels, February 2013.
• Top 10 Revolutionary War Movies, January 2013.
• The Strange Odyssey of George Merchant, Rifleman, January 2013.
• All For Liberty, January 2013.
• The History Coma, January 2013.
• General George Washington, a Military Life, January 2013.
• Financial Hero?, January 2013.
• April Morning, January 2013.
• General Nathanael Greene’s Hat, January 2013.

Publications in Other Journals

• Cold Steel on a Silent Night: the Battle of Stony Point, American Revolution, vol. 5, issue 4, July/August 2012.
• Iron Marvel: The West Point Chain, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 5, issue 3, May/June 2012,  p. 16-20.
• Frontier Horror: Ambush at Fort Laurens, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 5, issue 3, March/April 2012, p. 22-24.
• Treason! Slander! Murder?  James Wilkinson's Possible Assassination of Anthony Wayne, (written with Sandra Ormerod), Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 5, issue 1, January/February 2012, p. 42-48.
• Tides and Tonnage: A Different Take on the Boston Tea Party, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 4, issue 6, November/December 2011, p. 14-17.
• Book Review: Oliver Wiswell, by Kenneth Roberts, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 4, issue 5, September/October 2011, p.63.
• "Americanos" in Tripoli Harbor, (written with Helena Finnegan), Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 4, issue 4, July/August 2011, p. 20-26.
• The United States Invades East Florida, the Forgotten Patriot War of 1812, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 4, issue 3, July/August 2011, p. 20-25.
• Book Review: With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783, by Matthew H. Spring, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 4, issue 2, March/April 2011, p. 52.
• "Mad" Anthony Wayne's 1782 Savannah Campaign, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 4, issue 2, March/April 2011, p. 30-38.
•  “Good Weapons Not Wisely Laid Aside,” The Search for Alternative Weapons During the Revolution, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 3, issue 6, November/December 2010, p. 12-16.
• Book Review: Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 3, issue 6, November/December 2010, p. 53.
• The Other Mystery Shot of the American Revolution: Did Timothy Murphy Kill British Brigadier General Simon Fraser at Saratoga?, (written with Jim Jordan), Journal of Military History, vol. 74, no. 4, October 2010, p. 1037-1045.
• Washington’s First Victory of the War: The Battle of Harlem Heights,  Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 3, issue 5, September/October 2010, p. 30-35.
• Book Review: As If an Enemy’s Country, the British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution, by Richard Archer, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 3, issue 5, September/October 2010, p. 52.
• The Long Shot of 1776,  Patriots American Revolution, vol. 3, issue 4, July/August 2010, p. 10-12.
• General “Mad" Anthony Wayne, the Man With Two Graves, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 3, issue 2, March/April 2010, p. 24-28.
• “No Danger is to be Considered” - the Bermuda Powder Raid of 1775, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 3, issue 3, May/June 2010, p. 18-23.
• The Artist, the Astronomer, and the Telescopic Rifle Sight, Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 3., issue 1, January-February 2010, p. 44-45.
• Riflemen in the Boston Ammunition Crisis, American Revolution, vol. 1, number 1, January 2009 p. 49-52.
• Roundball Ballistics in the Revolutionary War; What Caused Rifle Shots to Go Over the Heads of the Enemy, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, May 2006, vol. 3, number 5, p. 12-13.
• "The Enemy are Hounded," General "Mad" Anthony Wayne's 1782 Savannah Campaign,  Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, April 2006, vol. 3, number 4, p. 32-36. 
• Medical Treatment for a Scalped Head, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, September 2005, vol. 2, number 9, p. 35-36, (written with Lisa A. Ennis).
• Joseph Howland Bill, M.D., Arrow Wounds and Treatments on the Western Frontier…a fatality greater then that produced by any other weapon, The EHistory Bulletin, Vol. 2, January, 2003. (Written with Lisa Ennis).
• 'Mad' Anthony Wayne: His Body Did Not Rest in Peace. On the Trail: A Journal for Historical Trekkers, Re-enactors, and Students of Living History, Vol 10, No. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 47-49. (Written with Lisa Ennis).
• Surviving a Scalping: James Robertson's Frontier Treatment, On the Trail: A Journal for Historical Trekkers, Re-enactors, and Students of Living History, Vol. 9 No. 5, September/October, 2002, p. 38-39. (written with Lisa Ennis).
• A Telescopic Sight in the American Revolution, Or, "A Riffle With a Tellescope to it," Muzzle Blasts, April 2001.
• Patriot Riflemen During the Ammunition Crisis at the Siege of Boston in 1775, Muzzle Blasts, January 2001.
• The Legendary Tim Murphy, Marksman of Bemis Heights, Muzzle Blasts, July 2000.
• "...A Piece of American Workmanship..." Or, The Long Shot of September 1776, Muzzle Blasts, April 2000.
• Book Review: A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, by Lawrence E. Babits, Muzzle Blasts, April 2002, p 45.

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