Exhibit showcases newspapers, pamphlets, other media, offering on-the-ground view of what regular citizens knew, and when they knew it.
“One of the most powerful propaganda images of the whole Revolution,” Houghton Library curator John Overholt said about this Paul Revere illustration of the Boston Massacre.Photos by Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer
Anna Lamb
Harvard Staff Writer
June 10, 2026
4 min read
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