Volume 75 Issue 2 February 2025

An Alligator’s Nest, by George Catlin, c.1850. Paul Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art Washington. Public Domain.

War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America

British soldiers fighting in the American Revolutionary War were unprepared for the terrain awaiting them across the Atlantic. Many thought that America was determined to destroy them; some felt it had succeeded.

Marginal illustration showing the expulsion of Jews, the Rochester Chronicle, 1355. British Library/Bridgeman Images.

The Long Destruction of England’s Jews

The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a medival Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It set the path to their expulsion.