Professor of Early American History, @AssumptionUMA; Director of @SlaveAdverts250; 18th-Century Advertising & Ephemera Enthusiast; Daily #Adverts250 Update
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Huzzah! Yesterday marked ten years of daily publication of the #Adverts250 Project. Today the project begins its eleventh year examining adverts from the era of the American Revolution & what they reveal about early American culture, commerce, & politics.
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What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“THE Work-shop of the subscriber was broke open on Saturday night.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for November 5
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Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1… (Image: @Readex)
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 5, 1776
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View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Democrats should do the Stefanik college president hearings in reverse. Get college presidents on the record saying that students have the right to peacefully protest and to say controversial--even offensive-- things. Get them on the record that scholars should not punished for their views and that universities will protect foreign students targeted for their views. Demand that the last three years of McCarthyism and cowardice end now.
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“THE Publisher of this Paper… has removed from Watertown… to the Printing-Office… in Queen-Street, Boston.”
Adverts 250 Project: Adverts for Nov. 4
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Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 4, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
You’re about to see some Hall of Fame snitching and Game of Thrones level maneuvering within this administration. It’s about to be every man and woman for themselves.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Long time Exec Director of Mi Republican Party when it was the gold standard of state parties.
Tonight is likely to be a rejection of @MikeRogersForMI. All my tweeting aside, I’ve known Mike & Kristi for 30+ years, I know how much it will hurt to lose. If that happens, I hope they accept this in the spirit in which this is offered: You deserve to be miserable after the appalling bigotry you’ve spread like napalm. Go away.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Haley Stevens is rescinding her support for Mike Rogers and endorsing Abdul El-Sayed.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it."
-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (#1)
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago this week?
“EDWARD POLE … MAKES and sells all kinds of the best FISHING TACKLE.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for November 3
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Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1… (Image: @Readex)
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
No, I'm saying that your attempt to ignore years of Trump and the GOP repeatedly attacking our constitutional order by creating some fantasy of what you assert Democrats will do three years from now is a dishonest and partisan argument - and you, of course, know it.
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“Members of the New York Whaling Company are desired to meet… in Newark.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for November 2
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Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1… (Image: @Readex)
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 2, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Mike Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda. We can’t afford to give MAGA another Senate seat in November. #MISEN
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“A Boarding-School”
“EVENING SCHOOL for Youth of Both Sexes”
“EVENING SCHOOL at the Town-House”
Adverts 250 Project: Advertisements for November 1
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Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 1, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“PUFFING, is not his Talent.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for October 31
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Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1… (Image: Independent Chronicle, 10/31/1776, @Readex)
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on October 31, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“The extraordinary Advance in the Price of Paper … has obliged them to raise the Price.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for October 30
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Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on October 30, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
