Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers: Primary Documents on Events of the Period (Debating Historical Issues in the Media of the Time) - Hardcover

David A. Copeland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313309825 ISBN 13: 9780313309823

Publisher: Greenwood (UK), 2000

Synopsis

For every major event or issue of the colonial period, newspapers printed the opinions of the day, in many cases attempting to influence public opinion. Issues such as medical discoveries, education, and censorship are covered in this collection along with important events such as the French and Indian War, the trial of John Peter Zenger, and the Boston Massacre. Each chapter introduces the event or issue and includes news articles, letters, essays, even poetry representing both sides of the argument as they affected Americans. Each document is preceded by an explanatory introduction. This is the only collection of primary source documents from colonial newspapers on the events of the era and will be a valuable tool for research and classroom discussion.

About this title

About the Author

David A. Copeland is A.J. Fletcher Professor, School of Communication, Elon University, Elon, NC. Professor Copeland is the editor of Greenwood's US Wars and the Media in Primary Documents and Debating Historical Issues in the Media of the Time series. He is also the author of Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (Greenwood, 2000), The Antebellum Era, and with Shannon Martin, The Function of Newspapers in Society (Praeger, 2003).

Carol Sue Humphrey is Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma Baptist University. She is the author of This Popular Engine: New England Newspapers During the American Revolution, 1775-1789 (1992), The Press and the Young Republic (Greenwood, 1996), and The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800 (Greenwood, 2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood (UK)
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313309825
• ISBN 13: 9780313309823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416