Public Writing
“It’s Finally Ben Franklin’s Time in the Sun,” Slate, Apr. 4, 2022
“The media revolution that guided Paul Revere’s ride,” Washington Post, Apr. 19, 2019
“Did Hamilton Write Too Much for His Own Good?” Public Seminar, Nov. 9, 2017
“‘Meer Mechanics’ No More: How Printers Shaped Information in the Revolutionary Age,” Age of Revolutions, Sept. 11, 2017.
“National Endowment for the Humanities Cuts Would Harm Local Communities,” Framingham Source, June 3, 2017
“Free from the Government: The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Press Freedom,” We’re History, Jan. 17, 2017
“George Washington, Man of Mystery,” TheAtlantic.com, Feb. 15, 2016
“USPS Folly Was Foreshadowed by Confederate Post Office,” Bloomberg: Echoes, Feb. 7, 2013
“The Postal Service is a Civic Institution, Not a Business,” TheAtlantic.com, Apr. 25, 2012
“Mobilizing the Public Against Censorship, 1765 and 2012,” TheAtlantic.com, Jan. 23, 2012
Contributor at Publick Occurrences 2.0 and The Junto
Podcasts
Guest host, Ben Franklin’s World
- Episode 156, “The Power of the Press in the American Revolution,” part of Doing History: To the Revolution!, Oct. 17, 2017
- Episode 100, “Behind-the-Scenes with Liz Covart and Ben Franklin’s World,” Sept., 20, 2016
As a guest:
- “Revolutionary Networks,” New Books in History, Aug. 23, 2019
- “Revolutionary Print Networks,” Ben Franklin’s World, episode 243
- “Post and Travel in Early America,” Ben Franklin’s World, episode 239
- “Everyday Life in Early America,” Ben Franklin’s World, episode 200
- “Teaching the U.S. History Survey,” The JuntoCast, Aug. 1, 2013
Interviews
“The German-American Newspaper That Got the Scoop on American Independence,” Atlas Obscura, July 3, 2019
“A look into Massachusetts’ participation in the slave trade,” Metrowest Daily News, March 4, 2018
Interview for “Campus Celebrity” feature, HerCampus Framingham, Oct. 27, 2015
“The Books Virginia Colonists Were Buying in the Decade before the Revolution,” The Vault, Slate, Apr. 24, 2015
“Framingham State: Bibb was a pioneering teacher,” MetroWest Daily News, Apr. 7, 2014
“US Postal Service Could Be ‘Stamped Out,'” RIA Novosti, Nov. 29, 2012
The Gatepost Interview (Framingham State University student newspaper), Oct. 19, 2012
“Spreading the Word: How colonial printers and postmasters furthered the cause,” by John R. Quain, U.S. News & World Report, Mysteries of History: The American Revolution (special issue), Feb. 2012
“What the U.S. Postal Service Cutbacks Mean for Your Family,” LifeGoesStrong.com, Dec. 6, 2011
Joseph M. Adelman 