Philadelphia Aurora

TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Benjamin Franklin Bache
EditorWilliam Duane (1798–1822)
FoundedOctober 1, 1790 (1790-10-01) (as General Advertiser, and Political, Commercial, Agricultural and Literary Journal)
Political alignmentRadical republicanism
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1824 (1824)
City
  • Philadelphia (1794–1800)
  • Washington (1800–1802)
  • Philadelphia (1802–1824)
CountryUnited States
OCLC number88155826

The Philadelphia Aurora (originally the Aurora General Advertiser) was a newspaper, published six days a week in Philadelphia from 1794 to 1824. The paper was founded by Benjamin Franklin Bache, and was continued as a tri-weekly, after his death from yellow fever in September 1798, as a leading organ of radical republicanism by the Irish-American journalist William Duane.[1][2]

  1. ^ "About this Newspaper: The Philadelphia Aurora". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2010-05-30. Title: Bache's Philadelphia aurora. : (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1797-1800
  2. ^ Rosenfeld, Richard N; Duane, William (1998). American Aurora : a Democratic-Republican returns : the suppressed history of our nation's beginnings and the heroic newspaper that tried to report it. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9780312194376. OCLC 40942824. presents a history of this newspaper.