Each student will select one specific event from the Revolutionary Period and investigate how that story was reported

Overview

Each student will select one specific event from the Revolutionary Period and investigate how that story was reported in two different newspapers.

The newspapers used must have different perspectives, i.e. rebel vs. loyalist, American vs. British, New England vs. Southern, from two different cities in two different colonies, etc.

The Newport Mercury or the Providence Gazette

The London Times.

For a secondary source, Steven Park's The Burning of His Majesty's Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American Revolution (2016) is the only full-length book I know of on the topic and is your best source.

http://gaspee.org/

https://www.warwickhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277:the-gaspee-affair-of-1772&catid=40:introduction-to-warwick-history&Itemid=130

https://archive.org/details/gloriouscauseame0000midd

The paper's conclusion will compare the reporting of the event in the newspapers to a historian’s perspective. Students can choose any secondary source (monograph, article from a scholarly journal, essay, etc.), including Middlekauff or Steven Park's The Burning of His Majesty's Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American Revolution (2016).

Use one of the following Fordham University Library-affiliated sites to select their Newspapers: American Historical Newspapers American Periodicals Series Online