156 Power of the Press in the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 17 October 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
How did Americans find out about the Revolution?
What effect did printed materials like newspapers, pamphlets, and books have on shaping the debate about independence? And just how big of a role did Thomas Paine’s Common Sense play in causing Americans to declare their independence from Great Britain?
In this episode of the Doing History: To the Revolution! series, we explore these question with four scholars of Revolutionary communication: Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt, Eric Slauter, Seth Cotlar, and Trish Loughran.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for Ben Franklin's World and the Doing History to the Revolution series comes from the |
| 0:05.0 | Omaha Institute. |
| 0:06.7 | Proud Publishers of the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading Journal of Early American History |
| 0:10.8 | since 1943. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:15.0 | Podcasts about Early American History with Liz Kovart. |
| 0:19.0 | The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future. |
| 0:25.0 | Van Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world. |
| 0:32.0 | And now, here's your host Liz Colart. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 156 of Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:40.0 | The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in. |
| 0:49.0 | Today's episode is very special because it was created and produced by Joe Adelman |
| 0:53.6 | an assistant professor of history at Framingham State University. Now in |
| 0:58.2 | addition to being the person who interviewed me in episode 100 |
| 1:01.1 | Joe is one of my Doing History Teammates at the |
| 1:04.0 | O'Mohandro Institute. As the Doing History Team and I outlined |
| 1:07.5 | episodes for this series, Joe made sure we included at least one episode on the |
| 1:12.0 | power of the press and communications in the |
| 1:13.8 | American Revolution and he did this because media communications and politics in the |
| 1:18.8 | 18th century Atlantic world is his historical specialty. So when Joe asked us if he could produce an episode, |
| 1:26.0 | this was the episode that made the most sense for him to produce, |
| 1:29.0 | because he is the subject matter expert, |
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