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Marble. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Trumbull is portrayed as a patriot. A former colonel in the Continental Army, he wears the badge of the Order of the Cincinnati.
Marble. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Trumbull is portrayed as a patriot. A former colonel in the Continental Army, he wears the badge of the Order of the Cincinnati.
The press was the mass medium of the eighteenth century, the only way to bring both news and commentary to a broad public audience. The popularity of newspapers soared in Revolutionary America: By the late 1780s, the United States had about ninety-five newspapers, over twice the number at the time of independence. Moreover, the newspapers of 1776 were weeklies, but those of 1787 we often published two or three times a week. There were even a few that appeared daily to satisfy the hungry reading public.