On Tour With Colonial Newspapers

Unlike any other tour guide in Boston, Ben Edwards of Walking Boston (walkingboston.com) shares real colonial newspapers printed in revolutionary Boston during his tours. If you book a tour with Ben, you will literally hold history in your hands as specific sites along the tour route are brought to life with these primary source documents. Because colonial newspapers — like the ones in this video — were the only form of mass media in their day, they served as the trumpet for revolutionaries such as Samuel Adams. In fact, many historians say colonial newspapers actually caused the American Revolutionary War.

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