Reading American Revolution Newspapers - History as it Unfolded
Channel: Journal of the American Revolution
Date: 2012-09-06

http://raglinen.com/book -- Historian John W. Hall explains how modern day readers of colonial newspapers get a real sense of what Americans thought of the Revolution as it was unfolding. 

John W. Hall is one of 37 contributors to Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News (Sourcebooks, November 2012) by Todd Andrlik. Hall is the Ambrose-Hesseltine Assistant Professor of U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He holds a BS in history from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill. He specializes in early American military history with particular emphasis on partisan and Native American warfare. He is the author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War (Harvard University Press, 2009) and numerous essays on early American warfare, including "Washington's Irregulars" in A Companion to George Washington, edited by Edward Lengel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

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