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Joseph M. Adelman

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2026 and Black Americans: A Conversation about Benjamin Quarles

The long-term impact of Quarles’s work.

by Joseph M. Adelman, Michael Dickinson via Omohundro Institute Of Early American History & Culture on June 28, 2023
An “Imperial Bridge” Between Britain and the North American Colonies

How British protestantism connected colonies and empire until the rupture of the American Revolution.

by Joseph M. Adelman, Katherine Carté via Uncommon Sense on September 7, 2022
A Loyalist and His Newspaper in Revolutionary New York

The story of James Rivington, the publisher who got on the wrong side of the Sons of Liberty.

by Joseph M. Adelman via The Gotham Center on August 25, 2020
The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.

by Joseph M. Adelman via The Junto on January 23, 2020
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The Media Revolution that Guided Paul Revere’s Ride

An anti-imperialist network made his warning possible.

by Joseph M. Adelman via Made By History on April 19, 2019
Free from the Government

The origins of the more passive view of the freedom of the press can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin.

by Joseph M. Adelman via We're History on January 17, 2017

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A stone marker for a post road, slightly chipped, reading "Boston 8 miles 1734 A.I."

"To Undertake a News-Paper in This Town"

How printers in the 1770s assembled the news for their papers, how they used the postal system, and how they may have approached Twitter.

by Emily Sneff via Declaration Resources Project on September 20, 2017

Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Against the Consensus Approach to History

How not to learn about the American past.

by William Hogeland via The New Republic on January 25, 2021

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