Table of Contents:
  • The revolution's legacy for the history of the book / Richard D. Brown
  • The rise of book publishing / James N. Green
  • Case study : Harper & Brothers / Scott E. Casper
  • Case study : urban printing / Karen Nipps
  • Printing is something every village has in it : rural printing and publishing / Jack Larkin
  • Of the paper cap and inky apron : journeymen printers / William S. Pretzer
  • Print and politics / John L. Brooke
  • Have pen, will travel : the times and life of John Norvell, political journalist / Jeffery L. Pasley
  • Copyright / Meredith L. McGill
  • Expanding the realm of communications / Richard R. John
  • Benevolent books : printing, religion, and reform / David Paul Nord
  • The learned world / David S. Shields
  • Libraries / Kenneth E. Carpenter
  • Schools / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis
  • Schoolbooks / Charles Monaghan and E. Jennifer Monaghan
  • Colleges and print culture / Dean Grodzins and Leon Jackson
  • Female academies and seminaries and print culture / Mary Kelley
  • Men writing in the early republic / David Leverenz
  • Women writing in the early republic / Joanne Dobson and Sandra A. Zagarell
  • Newspapers and periodicals / Andie Tucher
  • Harriet Newell's story : women, the evangelical press, and the foreign mission movement / Mary Kupiec Cayton
  • Making friends at the Southern literary messenger / Leon Jackson
  • Transformations in pictorial printing / Georgia B. Barnhill
  • Novels / Elizabeth Barnes
  • Travel books / Dona Brown
  • Biography / Scott E. Casper
  • Readers and writers of German / A. Gregg Roeber
  • Give me a sign : African Americans, print and practice / Grey Gundaker
  • Literacy and colonization : the case of the Cherokees / Barry O'Connell
  • Reading for an extensive republic / Robert A. Gross.