The American Herald was published in Boston on Mondays by Edward E. Powars. While the Constitutional Convention was meeting, Powars advocated “the acceptance and approbation of the new Federal Constitution,” which he believed the Convention would recommend. After the Constitution appeared, he published almost no original material favoring the Constitution, although he printed Federalist, as well as Antifederalist, material from out-of-state newspapers, particularly from the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, Pennsylvania Gazette, and New York Journal.