Joseph M. Adelman

Joseph M. Adelman is an assistant professor of history at Framingham State University and assistant editor for digital initiatives at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. His first book, Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789, will be published in May 2019 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He has published several essays, including “Who Tells Your Story: Hamilton as a People’s History,” in Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past (Rutgers University Press, 2018), “News in the Age of Revolution” (with Victoria E.M. Gardner) in Making News: The OPlitical Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet (Oxford University Press, 2015), and “‘A constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, public and private:’ The Post Office, the Business of Printing, and the American Revolution” in Enterprise and Society, which won the 2011 Rita Moroney Junior Award for Scholarship in Postal History. Adelman earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a master’s and Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University. He was previously 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.