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Culture, Newspapers, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Postwar Politics (>1783) November 8, 2018 November 7, 2018

A Revolution in Mottoes: Newspaper Mastheads and the American Revolution

by Jordan E. Taylor

In early 2017, the Washington Post debuted a new masthead with the motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” At about the same time, the New…

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Arts & Literature November 10, 2014 April 20, 2015

Propaganda Warfare: Benjamin Franklin Fakes a Newspaper

by Hugh T. Harrington

“The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it,” said the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.[1] Benjamin Franklin…

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1. Ed Sullivan Divine Providence and Deism in the Declaration of Independence

While it is true that the authors knew their audience and appealed to their religious sensibilities while rallying them to war, when it came time to produce a permanent founding…
2. John Fortune Top Ten Quotes by Francis Lord Rawdon

In family papers relating to my forbear William Ranken, who in 1781 was a Lieutenant in the 16th Regiment acting as ‘Acting Deputy Q.M. Gen’rl’ at Charleston, we have a…
3. Heather Hembrey Top Ten Quotes by Francis Lord Rawdon

Todd, thank you for sharing your work. I am intrigued by a passage in Lord Rawdon’s letter to his uncle (June 29, 1775): “ but a ball passed thro’ a…