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.