Trumpeters of Sedition: How the Printing Press Created a Revolution

Gary Gregory; proprietor of the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, will talk about the role of the printing press in the American Revolution. Printed pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers energized the revolution, and it was the printing press that produced the Declaration of Inde­pendence. Gary will use his replica of an English Common Press, a wooden hand-press that now resides at the Museum of Printing, to demon­strate the technology in use at the time of the American Revolution.