The Best Articles from the Most Popular Source of the Latest Research in Revolutionary War and Founding Era Studies The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2018 , presents the journal’s best historical research and writing over the past calendar year. The volume is designed for institutions, scholars, and enthusiasts to provide a convenient overview of the latest research and scholarship in American Revolution studies. The forty-one articles in the 2018 edition include: Anti-Indian Radicalization in the Early American West, 1774–1795 by Darren R. Reid The Setauket Raid, December 1777 by Phillip R. Giffin The 3rd New Jersey Regiment's Plundering of Johnson Hall by Philip D. Weaver A Proposed Alliance of the Knights of Malta and the United States of America by Bruce Ware Allen Country Crowds in Revolutionary Massachusetts: Mobs and Militia by Ray Raphael Lafayette: An Acerbic Tongue or an Incisive Judge of Character? by Gene Procknow Admiral Rodney Ousts the Jews from St. Eustatius by Louis Arthur Norton Preventing Slave Insurrection in South Carolina & Georgia, 1775–1776 by Jim Piecuch The “P” is for Profit: Revolutionary War Privateers and the Slave Trade by Michael Thomin The Remarkable Spanish Pilgrimage of John Adams by John L. Smith, Jr. Thomas Paine, Deism, and the Masonic Fraternity by Shai Afsai A Fresh Look at Major Patrick Ferguson by Wayne Lynch Displaced: The Donation People of 1775 by Katie Turner Getty “An excellent overview of recent scholarly findings and historical understanding of America's founding. . . . A welcome contribution to public and college library history collections, highly recommended.”— Library Bookwatch “The Journal of the American Revolution is an exciting experiment that benefits from the combined efforts of independent scholars and professional historians dedicated to re-examining the history of this country’s founding.”— Gregory J. W. Urwin, prize-winning historian, Temple University DON N. HAGIST  is managing editor of the  Journal of the American Revolution . An expert on the British army in the American Revolution, he is the author of many books and articles, including  Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution ,  British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution  and  The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs .