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The final two chapters offer a summary of the events that have occurred in Boonesborough since the town failed, the subsequent preservation of the site, and O'Malley's conclusions. O'Malley uses the final chapter to summarize the oral, historical, and archaeological evidence and create a single cohesive narrative about what life was like for the early settlers of Boonesborough. Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort: Nancy O'Malley, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2019. [Extracted from the article]

The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution. By Virginia DeJohn Anderson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When as part of my research into Wheatley I read extensively in contemporary newspapers and magazines that Wheatley and her circles might have read, I stumbled on a surprising, and striking, number of poems that read as if they not merely could be Wheatley's, but seem extremely likely to have been written by her. This essay presents those poems and makes the case for attribution in biographical and historical as well as lexical terms, and explores the implications of Wheatley having had especially strong incentives to publish some work anonymously, especially for a specific period after the publication of her book and her emancipation. In the wake of her fame and the politicization of slavery in the midst of the imperial controversy, anonymous and pseudonymous publication would have allowed her more control over the present and future of her writing than she had actually had before 1774 or possessed later, during the straitened literary and publishing scene of the Revolutionary War years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is minimal discussion of actual dance, given the title, and Smith appears more comfortable with music scholarship rather than dance. Smith offers a multidisciplinary approach, relying on "ethnomusicology, historical performance practice, and cultural geography" (4) to veer from traditional dance scholarship and explore the "complex social and symbolic dynamics that made dancing, singing, and playing in North American public settings a potentially revolutionary act" (2). [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution," by John Gilbert McCurdy, is presented.