Joseph Dragovich – Medium

Joseph Dragovich

Pinned

Joseph Dragovich
in
Lessons from History

The British Evacuated Thousands of Escaped Slaves from America

Exploring the journeys of thousands of slaves evacuated by the British at the end of the American War of Independence

6 min readOct 19, 2020

--

2

The British Evacuated Thousands of Escaped Slaves from America

--

2

Joseph Dragovich
in
Lessons from History

The 18th-Century Action Hero You’ve Never Heard Of

John Bolton fought dangerous gangsters, survived being a hostage, then tried to save one of his captors from the gallows

6 min readAug 2, 2023

--

Men fighting with clubs. Detail from Humours of an Election, William Hogarth, 1754. Wikimedia Commons

--

Joseph Dragovich
in
Exploring History

George Washington Killed A Lot Of Foxes

What the first president’s fox hunting habit says about early America

4 min readJul 29, 2020

--

George Washington Killed A Lot Of Foxes

--

Joseph Dragovich
in
Exploring History

Ben Franklin’s Scientific Pen Pal

How science was conducted by letter in the 18th century

3 min readJul 16, 2020

--

Ben Franklin’s Scientific Pen Pal

--

Joseph Dragovich
in
Lessons from History

What Happened to Thomas Jefferson’s Escaped Slaves?

During the American War of Independence, thousands of slaves took immense risks in a bid for freedom

3 min readMay 10, 2020

--

1

What Happened to Thomas Jefferson’s Escaped Slaves?

--

1

Joseph Dragovich
in
Lessons from History

How did George Washington handle an epidemic?”

The founding father faced a disease that threatened to destroy the Continental Army

8 min readApr 21, 2020

--

5

How did George Washington handle an epidemic?”

--

5

Joseph Dragovich
in
Lessons from History

America’s First Traitor

Benjamin Church and the little-known politics of American Independence

6 min readJan 9, 2020

--

America’s First Traitor

--

Joseph Dragovich
in
Lessons from History

George Washington’s Money War

How finance almost lost the Revolutionary War

6 min readNov 25, 2019

--

1

George Washington’s Money War

--

1

Joseph Dragovich
in
UX Collective

Evaluating user experience for startup founders

At some point in your life as an entrepreneur, you’re going to have to look at wireframes or mockups. Whether or not you’ve had a hand in…

5 min readOct 30, 2019

--

Evaluating user experience for startup founders

--

Joseph Dragovich
in
The Startup

When Not to Go Native

How you might want to stop worrying about the App Store and love the web.

5 min readOct 26, 2019

--

When Not to Go Native

--

Joseph Dragovich

Joseph Dragovich

I love to write history and tell the stories of the past. Author of Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption and Britain's Most Notorious Smuggling Gang

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams