The first printing press in America was set up in Cambridge under the guaranty of Harvard College, during the presidency of Henry Dunster. From this press, established nearly 300 years ago ...

This printing press used by Benjamin Franklin in John ... and let his wife go to the bottom.”) His paper ran the first American political cartoon in 1754 as part of an editorial titled ...

Over the next year and a half, the Museum of Printing is celebrating the start of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775) and the signing of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) with a ...

Newspapers like the Massachusetts Spy published bold, new ideas — and the shortcomings of their British leaders.