Professor of Early American History, @AssumptionUMA; Director of @SlaveAdverts250; 18th-Century Advertising & Ephemera Enthusiast; Daily #Adverts250 Update
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Huzzah! Yesterday marked ten years of daily publication of the #Adverts250 Project. Today the project begins its eleventh year examining adverts from the era of the American Revolution & what they reveal about early American culture, commerce, & politics.
adverts250project.org
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Brett Jones, the first openly gay sheriff to be elected in Alabama, campaigned on transparency, jail reform and discontinuing the county’s contract with Flock, the controversial license plate reader system that has sparked widespread concern. wapo.st/4Ahz6YP
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“THE BATTLE of BUNKERS-HILL. A dramatic piece of five acts, in heroic measure.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for November 7
#Adverts250
Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 7, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Let’s take it even further!! I’m proposing what I am calling “Individual Voters” where each voter is their own member of the electoral college.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
YouTube influencer--out of ignorance or pretentiousness--uses gloves to handle a not very rare book
--while Egyptologist Curator of Mss at the French National Library does not: while handling 1 of 3 original prints from the Rosetta Stone & Champollion's notebook
Any questions?
ALT screenshot from YouTube woman with dark hair wearing pink sweater stands up and holds a small black book in gloved hands
ALT against background of library shelves and ladders, woman with short dark hair and glasses, wearing burgundy sweater unrolls large lithographic print using bare hands https://youtu.be/f7dof7ym7MI?si=_SQBREYmpbBOOl0a&t=1611
ALT hand turns page in manuscript notebook with hieroglyphics https://youtu.be/f7dof7ym7MI?si=tRZWfWGaXk3SQMLP&t=2004
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“BEHOLD A COWARD!”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisements for November 6
#Adverts250
Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1… (Image: Massachusetts Spy, 11/6/1776, @Readex)
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 6, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Don’t miss the chance to visit the Museum of Printing booth at this weekend’s Boston Antiquarian Book Fair.
You will find us in the Cultural Row, Booth 529 on Friday from 4 to 8 pm, on Saturday from 12 to 7 pm, & on Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm.
For more:
abaa.org/events/48th-boston-…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Every anti-Paxton Republican I talked to was sick of exactly this kind of crap. They want the party to grow up, stop acting like Biff from Back to the Future, and actually try competence and integrity for a change.
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“THE Work-shop of the subscriber was broke open on Saturday night.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advertisement for November 5
#Adverts250
Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1… (Image: @Readex)
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 5, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Democrats should do the Stefanik college president hearings in reverse. Get college presidents on the record saying that students have the right to peacefully protest and to say controversial--even offensive-- things. Get them on the record that scholars should not punished for their views and that universities will protect foreign students targeted for their views. Demand that the last three years of McCarthyism and cowardice end now.
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“THE Publisher of this Paper… has removed from Watertown… to the Printing-Office… in Queen-Street, Boston.”
Adverts 250 Project: Adverts for Nov. 4
#Adverts250
Learn more: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery.
Adverts 250 Project: Slavery Advertisements Published 250 Years Ago Today on November 4, 1776
@SlaveAdverts #Adverts250
View them here: adverts250project.org/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
You’re about to see some Hall of Fame snitching and Game of Thrones level maneuvering within this administration. It’s about to be every man and woman for themselves.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Long time Exec Director of Mi Republican Party when it was the gold standard of state parties.
Tonight is likely to be a rejection of @MikeRogersForMI. All my tweeting aside, I’ve known Mike & Kristi for 30+ years, I know how much it will hurt to lose. If that happens, I hope they accept this in the spirit in which this is offered: You deserve to be miserable after the appalling bigotry you’ve spread like napalm. Go away.
