All are invited to hear from Professor Joseph M. Adelman on Tuesday, January 30th at 7:00 PM in Room 204 at Acton Town Hall, 472 Main Street. This is the third lecture in a series commissioned by the Acton 250 Committee to help us better understand and appreciate the times when our nation was born. Please register here so that you may be contacted for future activities. There is no charge for this event. You can also watch live on ActonTV (https://www.youtube.com/@ActonTV1/streams) or Zoom at https://actonma.zoom.us/j/81741134640 if you would like to engage in the Q&A portion of the talk.

Professor Adelman will tell the story of the Revolutionary War’s forgotten instigators: newspaper printers and editors. Shrewdly gauging the political climate and interests of their communities and balancing them with their own commercial interests, eighteenth-century printers were instrumental in creating propaganda and rallying the public to the revolutionary cause.

Professor Adelman earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. He currently teaches history at Framingham State University and is the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789. A noted speaker and author, he has published work in the Washington Post, Slate, and The Atlantic, is a regular contributor to the award-winning podcast, Ben Franklin’s World, and serves as an Associate Editor for The New England Quarterly.

All Acton 250th celebration event and historical information is located at http://www.actonma.gov/250.

 If required a “snow date” for this talk has been set for Monday, February 12, 2024.