Essays

• The Story So Far (January 1, 2016)
• In Which a Luddite Embraces Twitter (January 8, 2016)
• Bonus: Edward Pole’s Advertising Campaign (January 11, 2016)
• Selecting Adverts: Newspaper Published this Week 250 Years Ago (January 15, 2016)
• Calendar Considerations: When Were Newspapers Published? (January 22, 2016)
• A Counterfeit Advertisement for Counterfeit Currency (Guest Curator Katherine Smoak; January 25, 2016)
• In Which the Digital Archive Is Incomplete (January 29, 2016)
• In Which Bibliography of Early American Newspapers Is Too Much of a Good Thing (February 5, 2016)
• The Messy Marriage of Joanna and Robert Hebbard Further Considered (February 5, 2016)
• In Which Methodology, as well as Access, Significantly Shapes the Project (February 12, 2016)
• In Which One Digital Archive Nearly Replicates One Existing Archive (February 19, 2016)
• Binder’s Labels and Trade Cards: Or, Paratexts that Transformed Books into Advertisements (February 26, 2016)
• In Which Digital Surrogates Must Be Used as Complements to, Rather than Replacements for, Original Sources (March 4, 2016)
• Reflections on Working with Guest Curators (March 11, 2016)
• The Stamp Act and Advertisements: The Plan (March 18, 2016)
• In Which Addressed in Adverts Reveal Changing Conceptions of Urban Landscapes in Early America (April 1, 2016)
• In Which a Newspaper Advertisement Could Have Been a Broadside Book Catalogue (April 8, 2016)
• In Which Book Catalogues Encouraged a Revolution in Reading (April 15, 2016)
• In Which Advertising Ephemera Became Paratexts for Material Culture (April 22, 2016)
• Reflections on Working with Guest Curators, Once Again (April 29, 2016)
• In Which the Materiality of Texts Shapes Research Methodologies (May 27, 2016)
• In Which the Author Encounters a Series of Material Texts throughout Philadelphia (June 3, 2016)
• Introducing the Slavery Adverts 250 Project (September 18, 2016)
• The First Full-Page Advertisement in an American Newspaper (November 22, 2016)
• A Thank You Message upon the Occasion of the Adverts 250 Project’s First Anniversary (January 1, 2017)

Reviews

• Review of Don N. Hagist’s “The Stamp Act Riots Heard ‘Round the World” (March 25, 2016)
• Review of David and Ginger Hildebrands’ “Ballads from Boston” (May 6, 2016)
• A Student’s Review of the Hildebrands’ “Ballads from Boston” (Guest Curator Andrew Lampi; May 6, 2016)
• An Evening of Poetry at the American Antiquarian Society: Review of Citizen Poets of Boston (May 13, 2016)
• Review of T.H. Breen’s “George Washington’s Journey to the Nation” (May 20, 2016)