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The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999), standard textbook; best place to start. Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930
Cotton Mather was a Puritan minister in New England and a prolific author of books and pamphlets and is considered one of the most important intellectual figures in colonial America. Mather made free use of the presses in the New England colonies, sometimes in an effort to counter the attacks made on Puritans by George Keith and others. Between ...
Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick was the first multi-page newspaper published in British colonial America. After its first issue, which carried an account that offended the colonial governor, the newspaper was promptly closed down by British colonial authorities, only days later.
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.
Benjamin Harris (fl. 1673–1716) was an English publisher, a figure of the Popish Plot in England who then moved to New England as an early journalist. He published the New England Primer, the first textbook in British America, and edited the first multi-page newspaper there, Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, from 25 September 1690.
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]
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The Cambridge Press, 1638–1692; a history of the first printing press established in English America. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Round, Phillip H. (2010). Removable type: histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3390-2. Rush, Benjamin (2019). Butterfield, Lyman Henry (ed.).