Boston’s Pre-Revolutionary Newspaper Wars

Name: Boston’s Pre-Revolutionary Newspaper Wars
Start: November 6, 2013
End: 2013-11-05
Location: Boston Public Library

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The mass media of the American colonies were its thirty-eight newspapers. Speaker J.L. Bell examines the highly partisan political environment in the decade prior to the Revolution as well as the personal and political rivalries of some of the men who published newspapers and magazines in that era.

Bell has written and presented lectures on a variety of topics including the role of watchmen at the Boston Massacre and Boston’s raucous Pope Night holiday. He served as a consultant on an episode of PBS’ History Detectives, and contributed two essays to Reporting the Revolutionary War, published last year. For the National Park Service he wrote, "George Washington's Headquarters and Home in Cambridge, Massachusetts," a 651 page study, exhaustively researched and very readable.(Available to read online or download.)

John writes the Boston 1775 blog.

The talk is part of the library's "Local and Family History" lecture series.

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Central Library in Copley Square - Commonwealth Salon
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116

Directions/Transportation/Parking

By subway:

Green Line to Copley Station.

Orange Line to Back Bay/South End Station. Walk down Dartmouth Street to Copley Square.

By car:

Interstate 93 (from north or south) Take Storrow Drive exit. Take Copley Square exit off of Storrow Drive. The exit deadends at a signal light. The cross street is Beacon. Take a right on Beacon Street. While on Beacon Street, you will cross Berkeley, Clarendon, and Dartmouth Streets. The next street is Exeter. Take a left onto Exeter (it is a one-way street). While on Exeter, you will cross Marlborough Street, Commonwealth Avenue, and Newbury Street. The next cross street is Boylston. The Library is on the corner of Exeter and Boylston Streets.

Mass Pike (Interstate 90) Come all the way into the city on the Mass Pike. Take the Copley Square exit (the sign will read: Prudential Center, Copley Square). The exit road will split, follow the Copley Square (right) lane. You will exit the tunnel onto Stuart Street. You will be on the right hand side of the street. Move to the lane furthest left. Take the left at the next light, Dartmouth Street (approximately 500 feet from the tunnel exit). The Library is on the left of Dartmouth Street, after the next light (approximately 500 feet).

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For more information

http://www.bpl.org/programs/local_family_history_series.htm