What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “All kinds of Work both in the Plain and Regimental Way.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for Dec 24 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/WP2pwyHVEh (Image: Connecticut Gazette, @Readex)

What does it mean to “read, think, and act” in a revolutionary moment? Newspapers document women’s intellectual, political, and military engagement challenging narratives of Revolutionary participation

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He carries on the Spinning-Wheel business in its various branches.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for December 19 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/fqIMB7NIKL (Image: @Readex)

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “WILL BE PUBLISHED … A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advert for December 21 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/NrHXQyusnz (Image: @Readex)

General George Washington's army enters its winter quarters at Valley Forge #OTD in 1777. Research the conditions endured by the Continental Army in American Pamphlets and other Early American Imprints collections: https://t.co/8CO012XB27 #Revolution250 #Rev250 #MilitaryHistory

Revolutionary War history beyond battlefields: thousands died in captivity on prison ships like the HMS Jersey—a story later memorialized in Brooklyn. Readex blog uses primary sources to trace the narrative.

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Manufactures of all kinds in America tend to promote the welfare of it.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for December 15 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/E0yfuo8rBy (Image: @Readex)

“Rebels, turn out your dead!”—the daily call on British prison ships in NY Harbor. New Readex blog digs into prison-ship martyrs through period newspapers & memory + teaching angles. https://t.co/4DM7WPWrVv #Revolution250 #AmericanRevolution

What can modern governments learn from the adherence to ideology over science in the early- to mid-20th century to avoid the “destitution, prison, and exile, sometimes even physical annihilation” in Lenin and Stalin's USSR.? Read more: https://t.co/olbgl9Sqe1 #HumanRightsDay

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He will open a TAP of Messrs. HARE’s and Co. AMERICAN PORTER.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for December 9 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/bK03Hrj0I1 (Image: @Readex)

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONGRESS, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, MAY 10, 1775.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advert for Dec. 6 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/uK3u5zwvQm (Image: @Readex)

🌿Happy Green Monday! Take a moment to touch grass or, weather permitting, water. Silent film star & champion swimmer Annette Kellerman offered the radical advice: "swimming is a panacea for unhappiness and discontent." Read about her: https://t.co/wiook6wuEX #GreenMonday

White Plague, Black Death: Public Health as a Weapon in South Africa and the USSR. Read more about this history and the connection between health and human rights:

📖 'Free Talk About Free Books': Tracing the evolution of America’s libraries through primary source documents: https://t.co/f5QNUtpqBZ 🫶 Support your local library. #GivingTuesday #SpreadTheJoy #MakeADifference

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “THE American Edition of SIMES’s MILITARY GUIDE.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for December 2 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/okRvbnRZ6K (Image: Pennsylvania Ledger, @Readex)

Before the dot com Amazon there was the "Financial Amazon" of the Gilded Age https://t.co/2M8KaX3IEt #CyberMonday #BusinessHistory #WomensHistory

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He will engage to make Looms for the weaving of Linen an[d] Woollen.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for November 28 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/bzdUY7OJQM (Image: @Readex)

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “We, the subscribers, do recommend the above named John Spering as a Rider.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for Nov. 29 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/iArxfFfzHe (Image: @Readex)

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A neat Mezzotinto Print of the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq.” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for November 30 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/r9y9vEptmJ (Image: New-York Journal,@Readex)

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Sold by the several Post-Riders, and by the Shop-keepers in Town and Country” Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for Dec. 1 #Adverts250 Learn more: https://t.co/cEJfvS1MDn (Image: @Readex)