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An historical digest of the provincial press: being a collation of all items of personal and historic reference relating to American affairs printed i

An historical digest of the provincial press: being a collation of all items of personal and historic reference relating to American affairs printed i

Lyman Horace Weeks

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General ReferenceGeneral SociologyRegional: West

ISBN10: 9353605296
ISBN13: 9789353605292
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 620
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the United States had a constitution, it had newspapers. The distant past lives here. In this first volume of Lyman Horace Weeks's monumental An Historical Digest of the Provincial Press, notices of people, places, and events are gathered from american colonial newspapers across the long arc of colonial America 1689 1783. Drawn from the pioneering new england colonial press and other early American imprints, these entries form a living colonial newspaper index and documentary history collection that traces early American journalism from the first tentative news-sheets through the close of the Revolution. Carefully collated from scattered issues and now brought together as a single historical newspaper reference, the digest opens a direct route into provincial press history and the daily texture of life recorded in colonial american primary sources. It serves as an indispensable reference for historians, a meticulous genealogy research resource for those tracing families through advertisements and reports, and a rewarding browsing companion for anyone curious about how news, rumour, and public opinion travelled in the eighteenth century. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint, a collector's item and a cultural treasure, this classic of early American journalism and press scholarship is prepared for readers, researchers, and collectors who value original voices and enduring records of the past.

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