This Week on Dispatches: Jonathan Bayer on the Fake News of Quebec’s Surrender
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews PhD student and JAR contributor Jonathan Bayer on his discovery of an account of the surrender…
Pennsylvania Evening Post
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Fake News of the Surrender of Quebec: A Video Contribution
byIn 1776, the Pennsylvania Evening Post printed a letter, allegedly from Paris, which reported that American commander Benedict Arnold had captured the last major British…
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Top 10 Revolutionary War Newspapers
byHistorians have long praised newspapers for the role they played during the American Revolution, but they don’t always zero in on specific papers that…
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Breaking News 1776: First Reports of Independence
byEach year, more than a million people walk through the cold, dark Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington DC to glimpse the U.S….