Dr. Joseph Adelman on Common Sense

94 George Street, Providence, RI. 

The event will be accessible via the Caspersen Entrance only.

Registration is required for this event.

Please register at https://forms.gle/iWKYHdfb5dQmRCur8.

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About the event

Please note new date!

Join us on Thursday, January 22, 2026 at noon in the John Carter Brown Library Conference Room for a viewing of JCB copies of Thomas Paine's Common Sense featuring Dr. Joseph Adelman. 

Registration is required. Please register at https://forms.gle/iWKYHdfb5dQmRCur8.

About the speaker

Professor Joseph Adelman (Framingham State University) is a historian of media, communication, and politics in the Atlantic world. He is the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 with Johns Hopkins University Press. The book was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2019 St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize from the Bibliographical Society of America. He is now at work on a history of the Post Office in America. Adelman has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and served as a Lecturer in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.