|Dr. Carol Humphrey| Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Read All About it
February 17, 2005 The Revolutionary War. The defining moment of
America history as she untangled herself from an intruding
empire. The results etched out a “we the people” constitution
that bound thirteen colonies together in a new form of democracy
and ushered out British occupation forever. The joy, angst,
propaganda, casualties, and victories are recorded in the
newspapers of the time. Together with diaries and letters, the
public record that these things actually happened is kept alive
through the written word. For Carol Humphrey newspapers from the
Revolutionary War tell a story. “There were about 35 newspapers
total in the thirteen colonies at the time,” Carol says, “and
these served communities by telling them what was going on
outside their towns. What’s fascinating about this era is that
publishers of newspapers had an obvious bias, either in support
of the colonies or the British. Before the Revolution,
newspapers in the American colonies were