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January 20, 2009

| A Day Too Big for Narrative >>

The Birth and Death of the American Newspaper

Not the internet, silly; Jill LePore is talking about the first Death of the American Newspaper, i.e., the Stamp Act and the American Revolution. I love the story of Boston Gazette printer Benjamin Edes:

In 1774, a British commander gave his troops a list of men