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The Colonial Press that Fueled the Revolution
A sweeping view of colonial printers editors and writers who shaped American independence. Key figures Samuel Adams John Adams Isaiah Thomas Benjamin Franklin James Franklin John Peter Zenger John Dickinson Tom Paine and others, plus how newspapers spread news, forged public opinion, and helped win independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Revere
Lexington
Boston Gazette
Samuel Adams
Thomas Hutchinson
John Hancock
Continental Congress
Lexington and
Concord
Massachusetts
Isaiah Thomas
Boston
Worcester
Essex Gazette
Salem
New York Journal
Concord Bridge
Sam Adams
John Dickinson
George Washington
Mander
Bunker Hill
Ethan Allan
Ticonderoga
Washington
Tom Paine
Watertown
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Frederic B. Farrar
Governor Hutchinson
Spy and Gazette
Willard G. Bleyer
New York
Frank Luther Mott
Isaac Collins
New Jersey
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Clarence Brigham
Benjamin Harris
Publick
James Franklin
Ben
New England Courant
Pennsylvania Gazette
John Peter Zenger
New York Weekly Journal
Zenger
The
Gazette
Sons of Liberty
Thomas Paine
Pennsylvania
Europe
Paine
Kingship
George III
Trenton
Benjamin Edes
John Gill
Edes
Joseph Warren
James Otis
Thomas Cushing
Samuel Cooper
William Bradford III
Pennsylvania Journal
Bradford