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American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States, 1690–1960 (3rd ed. 1962). major reference source and interpretive history. Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. (2001) Pride, Armistead S. and Clint C. Wilson. A History of the Black Press. (1997) Safley, James Clifdford.
Newspapers were the vehicle that asserted the greatest social and political pressure on the Stamp Act and were instrumental in its repeal less than a year later. [131] [126] The Constitutional Courant was a single issue colonial American newspaper published in response to the Stamp Act. Printed by William Goddard under the assumed name of ...
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.
A 1609 title page of the German Relation, the world's first newspaper founded in 1605 [1] This list of the oldest newspapers sorts the newspapers of the world by the date of their first publication. The earliest newspapers date to 17th century Europe when printed periodicals began rapidly to replace the practice of hand-writing newssheets.
James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies. Franklin published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short lived Rhode Island ...
The Weekly news-letter. January 5, 1727 – October 29, 1730. The Boston weekly news-letter. November 5, 1730 – August 25, 1757. The Boston news-letter. September 1, 1757 – March 18, 1762. The Boston news-letter, and New-England chronicle. March 25, 1762 – March 31, 1763. The Massachusetts gazette. And Boston news-letter. April 7, 1763 ...
Bibliography of early American publishers and printers is a selection of books, journals and other sigmass devoted to these topics covering their careers and other activities before, during and after the American Revolution. Various works that are not primarily devoted to those topics, but whose content devotes itself to them in significant ...
The Boston Gazette is widely considered the most influential newspaper in early American history, especially in the years leading up to and into the American Revolution. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1741 the Boston Gazette incorporated the New-England Weekly Journal , founded by Samuel Kneeland , and became the Boston-Gazette, or New-England Weekly Journal .