To listen to my KFMG (Des Moines) Independence Day radio interview, use the following link: 

 https://archive.org/details/john-ferling-aut.-jun-2021-winning-independence-the-decisive-years-of-the-revolu

Five Best: John Ferling
On the Revolutionary War


1. Paul Revere’s Ride By David Hackett Fischer (1994)
2. The War for America, 1775-1783 By Piers Mackesy (1964)
3. The Men Who Lost America By Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (2013)
4. A Devil of a Whipping By Lawrence E. Babits (1998)
5. The War of American Independence By Don Higginbotham (1971)

The following link will take you to an interview I did on the “What Matters Most” podcast that became available on July 4: 

 https://www.paulsamueldolman.com/parent/podcasts/pauly-cast/john-ferling-855/

Around the same time I was interviewed on “The Not Old – Better” podcast. You can hear it by going to the following link:

https://soundcloud.com/notoldbetter/557-winning-independence-john

Here is a link to view my June 29 virtual presentation on Winning Independence to the National Archives. The National Archives made the presentation available on Youtube. The link is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc_-XVRdb-U

Two recent articles on the Revolutionary War by John Ferling, the first dealing with the relationship between Sir Henry Clinton and Charles, Earl Cornwallis, and the second with the decisive engagement at Yorktown. Both appeared in American History Magazine on H-Net:    

https://www.historynet.com/how-the-colonists-beat-britains-best.htm

https://www.historynet.com/brit-blew-it-at-yorktown.htm

See also “Sir Henry Clinton’s Generalship” – Journal  of the American Revolution (April 27, 2021)   

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/04/sir-henry-clintons-generalship/

Also see:  “The Troubled Relationship Between Clinton and Cornwallis and their ‘War’ After the Revolutionary War” Journal of the American Revolution (July 15, 2021)  

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/07/the-troubled-relationship-between-clinton-and-cornwallis-and-their-war-after-the-war/