As I’ve argued here before, there’s no better window into the world of mid-18th century Philadelphia than Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette.  Any single number of Franklin’s paper promises innumerable avenues of approach to understand the rich texture of daily life.  In fact, the same number that I wrote about here at the blog before still yields a rich vein of material I can continue to mine in my teaching.  Three years later, I’m still using the same number of this newspaper to teach the U.S. history survey, and I’m still finding new things to talk about. Let’s take this advertisement, Read more