Carol Sue Humphrey is a professor of history at Oklahoma Baptist University and the author of numerous books on American history and journalism, including The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800 (2003) and two volumes of The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting—Volume 1, The French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War and, with David A. Copeland, Volume 2, The War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War (both 2005).
Historians have long praised newspapers for the role they played during the American Revolution, but they don’t always zero in on specific papers that were particularly important during this time. Rather, they give deserving praise to all of the press for the help they gave in winning independence. But there are particular newspapers that should […]
For Americans in the Revolutionary era, newspapers provided a major source of information about events related to the conflict with Great Britain. The people who produced these publications played a key role in getting the news out because they believed it was important for people to know what was happening. They also strongly supported their […]
