Revolutionary America produced the First Amendment. It also, however, included something we hear less about – printers under attack for the things they published. Citations - Willard Grosvenor Bleyer, Main Currents in the History of American Journalism (Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1927) Stephen Botein, “‘Meer Mechanics’ and an Open Press: The Business and Political Strategies of Colonial American Printers,” in D. Fleming and B. Bailyn (Eds.), Perspectives in American History (Volume IX) (pp. 125-225) (Cambridge, MA: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 1975) Benjamin Franklin, “Apology for Printers,” The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 10, 1731 Kara Pierce, “A Revolutionary Masquerade: The Chronicles of James Rivington,” Journal of History for Binghamton University (spring, 2006), https://archive.is/20070712184335/http://www.binghamton.edu/history/resources/bjoh/A%20Revolutionary%20Masquerade%20The%20Chronicles%20of%20James%20Rivington.htm (retrieved online) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958) Francis G. Walett, “Gazetteer Hated by Patriots,” Dixon Evening Telegraph (Dixon, Illinois), August 20, 1975, found on Newspapers.com Music from https://www.sessions.blue/ (Blue Dot Sessions)