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Thursday, October 06, 2022
“They understood he was not the person intended”
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One of the minor but telling disagreements between Josiah Quincy, Jr. , and the government ministers he met in London in November 1774 invol...
Monday, March 22, 2021
A Pyrrhic Victory in the Printers’ Case
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In Parliament, 250 years ago this season, there was a big step forward in press freedom to report about how English-speaking governments wo...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Evacuation Day Lecture Now Online
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I’ve put “The End of Tory Row,” my Evacuation Day talk for Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters, online at YouTube . Because this w...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
The Privilege of Printing Parliamentary Debates
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Every so often I’ve mentioned how in the 1760s the British press was wary of reporting the exact language of Parliament ’s debates. The...
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