The Open Door Podcast

Episode 2: The Loyalist Legacy

Resources

Dr. Compeau’s projects …

Loyalist Migrations

A partnership between the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada (UELAC), Huron University College’s Community History Centre, and Western Libraries’ Map and Data Centre.


Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History. Edited by Kevin Kee and Timothy J Compeau. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019.

… and recommended Loyalist reading list

Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Van Buskirk, Judith L. Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Whitfield, Harvey Amani. North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016.

The Consequences of Loyalism: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon. Edited by Joseph S. Moore and Rebecca Brannon, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.

 

coming soon

Compeau, Timothy J. Dishonoured Americans: The Political Death of a Loyalist in the American Revolution.
[Not yet published]

 

Other books mentioned on the podcast:

Smith, Paul. Loyalists and Redcoats: A Study in British Revolutionary Policy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964.

Nelson, William H. The American Tory. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

Stewart, Frank Henderson. Honor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Taylor, Alan. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.

Canniff, William. History of the Settlement of Upper Canada, with special reference to the Bay of Quinte. Toronto: Dudley and Burns, 1869

Ryerson, Egerton. The Loyalists of America and their Times, From 1620-1816. Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1880.

Knowles, Norman. Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts. Toronto: UP, 1997.

Bernard Baylin. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974

Brannon, Rebecca. From Revolution to Reunion The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016.

Coleman, Aaron N. “Loyalists in War, Americans in Peace: The Reintegration of the Loyalists, 1775-1800.” (2008) University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations. Paper 620.

Sabine, Lorenzo. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1864.

Henry Coyne. Memorial to the United Empire Loyalists. Publications of the Niagara Historical Society, 1904.