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Jordan E. Taylor

Historian of Revolutionary America

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Writing, interviews, and talks for audiences beyond the academy. For speaking or writing enquiries, get in touch.

Heardtalks & podcasts

May 2026

Panel

Revolutionary Narratives: From Broadsides to Hollywood

Massachusetts Historical Society

April 2026

Podcast

News and Misinformation in Early America

So to Speak (FIRE)

March 2026

Panel

John Breaux Symposium: American Media at 250

Louisiana State University

June 2024

Podcast

Fake News in the American Revolution

Journalism History

2024

Podcast

Fake News in Early America

Ben Franklin’s World, episode 375

July 2023

Lecture

Ford Evening Book Talk

George Washington’s Mount Vernon

March 2023

Webinar

Media Literacy in the American Revolution

National Humanities Center

Nov. 2022

Podcast

Interview on Sounds about Right

Sounds About Right podcast

Nov. 2022

Podcast

18th-Century Fake News

Dirty Sexy History

2022

Lecture

Talk at the American Revolution Institute

Also broadcast on C-SPAN

2022

Podcast

Misinformation in Revolutionary America

Chatter, from Lawfare

April 2022

Video podcast

I Don’t Know About That, with Jim Jefferies

I Don’t Know About That podcast

April 2021

Podcast

Vaccine passports episode

Today, Explained (Vox)

April 2021

Radio

The history of vaccine passports in the U.S.

National Public Radio

April 2021

Radio

How U.S. Vaccine Passports Have Worked Before

The Rick Ungar Show

2020

Podcast

Forgotten Scandals

Smith College podcast, developed with students

Writtenessays & op-eds

Autumn 2024

The Voiceless Witness

Trend & Tradition

Winter 2024

Spreading the News

Trend & Tradition

Dec. 2022

How fake foreign news fed political fervor and led to the American Revolution

The Conversation

Oct. 2022

How the Founding Generation Fell So Hard for the Illuminati Story

Slate

April 2021

The U.S. Has Had ‘Vaccine Passports’ Before — And They Worked

TIME

Jan. 2021

What the pro-Trump insurrectionists share — and don’t — with the American Revolution

Washington Post

July 2020

America’s First Newspapers Were Financed by the Slave Trade

The Daily Beast

March 2020

Deep political fissures may worsen the coronavirus outbreak

Washington Post

2020

Enquire of the Printer

ArcGIS StoryMap — digital companion to the Early American Studies article

Oct. 2019

The Founders knew first-hand that foreign interference in U.S. elections was dangerous

Washington Post

May 2019

What President Trump doesn’t understand about the Logan Act

Washington Post

Sept. 2018

Anonymous Criticism Helped Make America Great

Washington Post

Oct. 2017

Why Trump’s assault on NBC and ‘fake news’ threatens freedom of the press

Washington Post

Postedblog essays

2019

How Media Was Social in the 1790s

The Panorama (SHEAR)

2019

Review: Adelman, Revolutionary Networks

The Junto

2019

Q&A with Joseph Adelman

The Junto

2018

A Revolution in Mottoes: Newspaper Mastheads and the American Revolution

Journal of the American Revolution

2018

From Platform to Publisher: Facebook, the Open Press, and Alex Jones

The Junto

2018

The Attention Economy of the American Revolution

The Junto

2018

Review: Wim Klooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History, New Edition

The Junto

2018

Golden Hill as Historical Historical Fiction

The Junto

2018

Q&A: Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill

The Junto

2017

Information and Ideology in Henri-Antoine Mézière’s Canadian Age of Revolutions

Age of Revolutions

Citedin the press & scholarship

Oct. 2022

The Author’s Corner with Jordan E. Taylor

Current

Oct. 2022

Page 99 Test: Misinformation Nation

Page 99 Test

April 2021

Should You Be Worried About ‘Vaccine Passports’?

New York Times, — quoted

Aug. 2020

How early U.S. newspapers brokered slavery

Journalist’s Resource, — interview

2020

An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations

Media 2070

2019

Cited in Neal Katyal with Sam Koppelman, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump

Houghton Mifflin, pp. 40–41

Oct. 2019

Washington Post impeachment live updates

Washington Post, — noted in live coverage

Also cited in the Southern California Law Review, Seton Hall Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Journal of Law, Technology, and Policy, and in Melissa Zimdars and Kembrew McLeod, eds., Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2020). For more citations, see my Google Scholar page.