Don N. Hagist, managing editor; J.L. Bell, Katie Turner Getty, Jim Piecuch, and Ray Raphael, associate editors; Todd Andrlik, founding editor; Bruce H. Franklin, publisher

"Presents the journal's best historical research and writing of the previous year. Designed for institutions, scholars, and enthusiasts alike, the annual volume provides a convenient overview of the latest research and scholarship about the founding of the United States of America." --

Alexander Hamilton's missing years: new insights into the Little Lion's Caribbean childhood / Ruud Stelten & Alexandre Hinton -- Lenape origins of an independent America: the catalyst of Pontiac's War, 1763-1765 / Kevin A. Conn -- Countervailing colonial perspectives on quartering the British Army / Gene Procknow -- Sons of Liberty and mob terror / Jeffrey D. Simon -- A "truly noble" resistance: the Sons of Liberty in Connecticut / Dayne Rugh -- A moonlighting British Army surgeon / Gene Procknow -- An economist's solution to the war: Adam Smith and the rebelling colonies / Bob Ruppert -- Ethan Allen's mysterious defeat at Montreal reconsidered / Mark R. Anderson -- Who said, "Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes" / J.L. Bell -- Smoking the smallpox sufferers / Katie Turner Getty -- Revolutionary origins of the Whistleblower Law / Louis Arthur Norton -- How did John Adams respond to Abigail's "Remember the Ladies"? / Jane Hampton Cook -- Opposing the Franco-American Alliance: the case of Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot / Richard J. Werther -- Longhouse lost: the Battle of Oriskany and the Iroquois Civil War / Brady J. Crytzer -- A demographic view of North Carolina Militia and state troops, 1775-1783 / Douglas R. Dorney, Jr. -- Minorcans, New Smyrna, and the American Revolution in East Florida / George Kotlik -- American Revolution sees the first efforts to limit the African slave trade / Christian M. McBurney -- What killed prisoners of war?: a medical investigation / Brain Patrick O'Malley -- Tapping America's wealth to fund the Revolution: two good ideas that went awry / Tom Shachtman -- Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield: Loyalist partisan of the American Revolution / Eric Wiser -- General Isaac Gregory's fictitious treason / Michael Cecere -- Stony Point: the second occupation, July-October 1779 / Michael J.F. Sheehan -- Outbreak! New York, 1779 / Don N. Hagist -- Mysterious march of Horatio Gates / Andrew Waters -- "Mad Anthony": the reality behind the nickname / Michael J.F. Sheehan -- British invade Nicaragua / George Kotlik -- Mapping the Battle of Eutaw Springs: modern GIS solves a historic mystery / Stephen J. Katzberg -- Attack up the Connecticut River: the first British raid of Essex / Matthew Reardon -- Revolutionary revenge on Hudson Bay, 1782 / Merv O. Ahrens -- Framers debate impeachment / Ray Raphael -- Constitutional Convention debates the electoral college / Jason Yonce -- Yellow fever outbreak of 1793: ten observations and lessons / Brain Patrick O'Malley -- Thomas Jefferson and the public benefit of epidemics / Geoff Smock -- Did yellow fever save the United States? / Geoff Smock -- Presidential Power: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase / Jett B. Conner