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The first book on record printed on an American printing-press needing the services of a bookbinder was The Whole Book of Psalms, published at Cambridge in 1640. [239] John Ratcliff of the seventeenth century is the first identifiable bookbinder in colonial America, credited for binding Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663. [240]
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.
Pages in category "Newspapers of colonial America" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Merritt, Richard L. (Autumn 1963). "Public Opinion in Colonial America: Content-Analyzing the Colonial Press". The Public Opinion Quarterly. 27 (3). Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research: 356– 371. doi:10.1086/267181. JSTOR 2747114. Miller, C. William (1958). "Benjamin Franklin's ...
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.
The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media (9th ed. 1999.), standard textbook; Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism A History: 1690–1960 (1962) Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers (2006) excerpt and text search; Schudson, Michael.
The newspaper was printed on a printing press imported by Franklin's father, James Franklin (1697–1735), in 1717 from London. [1] The Mercury may be the first newspaper published by a woman in the colonial United States. [2] The Mercury was the also first paper to publish poetry by an African American woman, Phillis Wheatley. [3]
The Boston News-Letter, first published on April 24, 1704, is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in the colony of Massachusetts.It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation.