Gossip Becomes News During the American Revolution
Channel: Journal of the American Revolution
Date: 27/10/2012

http://beforehistory.com - Historian Benjamin L. Carp discusses how gossip becomes news during the American Revolution and other exciting elements of newspapers. 

Benjamin L. Carp is one of 37 contributors to Reporting the Revolutionary War (Sourcebooks, November 2012) by Todd Andrlik. He is an associate professor of history at Tufts University, where he teaches the history of early America. He has published two books: Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) and Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). He has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from the University of Virginia, and he previously taught at the University of Edinburgh. He has received the Leverhulme Research Fellowship and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

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