Corcoran, Author at UELAC

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July 2017

Loyalist Trails 2017-28

Corcoran2021-12-02T21:17:44-05:00July 11th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-28: July 11, 2017

In this issue:
– UELAC Gear: Order Before July 12
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Let the Good Times Roll
– Sarah Winslow: The Spunky Sister (Part 2 of 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Honouring Simon Girty in Pennsylvania: Addendum
– Loyalist Surge Changed Makeup of Canada
– Borealia: Anguish in the Loyalist Archives, Part 1
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections Loyalist New Brunswick and the Absence of Party Politics
– JAR: Avenging Francis Bradley, the Mecklenburg Marksman: A Family Story
– Ben Franklin’s World: A Declaration in Draft
– Where in the World?
– Region and […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-27

Corcoran2021-12-02T21:18:26-05:00July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-27: July 2, 2017

In this issue:
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Happy Canada Day Weekend!
– UELAC Gear: Order Before July 12
– UELAC Conference: 2017, Canada 150, and 2018
– Sarah Winslow: The Spunky Sister (Part 1 of 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Honouring Simon Girty in Pennsylvania
– Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe, Artist & Diarist
– Canadians all sound the same, UVic study finds
– Raise the Spitfire?
– Borealia: Indigenous Policy and Silence at Confederation
– JAR: The April 19, 1775 Civilian Evacuation of Lexington
– Ben Franklin’s World: Nathaniel Bowditch – 19th-Century of Business, Science, and […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-26

Corcoran2021-12-03T14:53:18-05:00June 25th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-26: June 25, 2017

In this issue:
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Last Week, Your Last Chance
– UELAC Gear: Order Before July 12
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– That Ship On the New Brunswick Flag, by Stephen Davidson
– How Tall was the Average Eighteenth-Century Soldier?
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: First Nations and Local Courts of New Brunswick
– JAR: From Yorktown to England – Cornwallis’s fraught passage home
– The Junto: Research at the Bodleian – A Guide
– Ben Franklin’s World: The Other Slavery – Indian Enslavement in the Americas
– First Nations: Algonquian […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-25

Corcoran2021-12-03T14:56:03-05:00June 18th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-25: June 18, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Unpacking a History Book’s Paragraph: The Famous and the Obscure (Part 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: 2 Weeks and Counting
– Book Review: Fire & Desolation, by Gavin Watt
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Researching Recipes – A First-Hand Look
– JAR: James Abercrombie, much lamented victim of Friendly Fire at Bunker Hill
– Junto: Ideology, Power, and Thrill
– Ben Franklin’s World: Frontier Politics in Early America
– British Forces Land at Staten Island New York, the New York Campaign Begins
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-24

Corcoran2021-12-03T14:56:52-05:00June 11th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-24: June 11, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Unpacking a History Book’s Paragraph: Dying in a Land of Strangers (Part 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Three Weeks to Go!
– The World Remembers WWI: 2017 Project
– The 1772 Gaspee Affair, Rhode Island’s Own Tea Party>
– The Smithsonian: When Nova Scotia Almost Joined the American Revolution
– The Prussian Nobleman Who Helped Save the American Revolution
– Borealia: Book Review – Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family
– JAR: William Bingham, Forgotten Supplier of the American Revolution
– Ben […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-23

Corcoran2021-12-03T14:57:36-05:00June 4th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-23: June 4, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Unpacking a History Book’s Paragraph: The Loyalists of Jamaica, Long Island (Part 1), by Stephen Davidson
– NEHS: Six Loyalist Houses in New England
– Bicentennial Branch Supports Belle Vue House Restoration
– Junto: What Do PhD History Grads Do Next? (Part 2)
– Borealia: The American Gaze: Adam Gopnik’s Canada
– JAR: For God and Country: The Intelligence Role of the Rev. John Vardill
– Ben Franklin’s World: Material Culture and the Making of America
– Branches and Loyalist Day, Canada 150, Canada Day […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-22

Corcoran2021-12-03T14:58:43-05:00May 28th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-22: May 28, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Lorenzo Sabine: Speaking for Outlaws, Wanderers and Exiles, by Stephen Davidson
– Versions of Sabine’s Book
– Sarah Hay Revisited
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: 5 Weeks to Go
– Loyalist Dissertations Added to Loyalist History Collection at Brock U.
– The Effects of the Huguenot Diaspora on the American Revolution
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Following Family Tracks: The Vanderbecks
– Junto: What Do PhD History Grads Do Next? (Part 1)
– Borealia: Early Canada at the Canadian Historical Assoc’n Meeting
– JAR: We Have […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-21

Corcoran2021-12-03T15:00:37-05:00May 21st, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-21: May 21, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Lorenzo Sabine: Calling a Spade a Spade, by Stephen Davidson
– Six Nations: Haldimand Tract, 1784, Where They Settled
– Redcoats and War Crimes
– Junto: Q&A with Marisa Fuentes, Author of Dispossessed Lives
– JAR: The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Plundering of Johnson Hall
– Ben Franklin’s World: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America
– American Revolution Mohawk Valley Conference, June 10-11
– Loyalists and the War of 1812: James Kelsey and sons Samuel and John
– Where in the World?
– Region […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-20

Corcoran2021-12-03T15:02:45-05:00May 14th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-20: May 14, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Lorenzo Sabine: The American Historian Who Venerated the Loyalists, by Stephen Davidson
– Study Early America? You Should Look at the Loyalist Claims: Steph Walters
– Book: Fire and Desolation, by Gavin K. Watt
– Book: Paper and Spit: Family Found: How DNA and Genealogy Revealed My first Parents’ Identity, by Don Anderson
– RevWarTalk: 09/17/1775 Siege of Fort St. Jean in Quebec Begins
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Hannah Ingraham, A Child’s Perspective
– Junto: Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, Jamestown Women
– JAR: […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-19

Corcoran2021-12-03T15:03:28-05:00May 7th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-19: May 7, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– The Portrait of Sarah Hay: Part Three, by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Hearts of Oak on Canvas: Watson and the Shark
– The Royal Archives Reveals the Hidden Genius Behind George III’s “Madness”
– Ben Franklin’s World: Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post
+ Albert Woolland Crook, UE
+ Joyce Sybilla Polgrain (nee Wood), UE
[…]