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| Preface | |
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| Media in Early America | |
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| Crossing the Atlantic | |
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| Printing Revolution as a Catalyst for Social Change | |
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| Prior Restraint in England: Publishing Precedent | |
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| Licensing Challenge by Books and Newspapers | |
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| British America | |
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| Definitions of News | |
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| Diffusion of News | |
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| Publishing | |
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| A Commercial Enterprise | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Resistance and Liberty | |
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| Resistance Personified: The Zenger Trial | |
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| Bradford as Forerunner | |
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| The New YorkJournal | |
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| The Zenger Trial | |
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| After Zenger | |
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| Colonial Resistance to Economic Policy | |
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| The Stamp Act | |
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| Economic Resistance Turns Political | |
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| The BostonGazette as Radical Rag | |
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| Letters from a Farmer: Serial Essays | |
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| Journal of Occurrences: Fact or Fiction? | |
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| News of Congress and of War | |
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| Congressional Proceedings Secret | |
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| News of War Spreads through Colonies | |
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| Declaration of Independence | |
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| Public Opinion and Freedom of Expression | |
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| Newspapers and Political Pamphlets: Relative Merits | |
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| Newspapers for a Continent | |
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| The Significance of Circulations | |
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| Recording Early History: Isaiah Thomas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Forming a New Nation | |
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| Constitutional Politics and the Press | |
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| The Fight for Ratification: Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists | |
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| The Bill of Rights: Congress Shall Make No Law | |
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| Enlightenment Philosophy and the Bill of Rights | |
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| Evolution of the Commercial Press | |
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| Information Demand and Developing Dailies | |
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| Political Press and National Politics | |
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| Federalist Newspapers | |
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| Jeffersonian (Republican) Newspapers | |
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| Lingering Legacy of Seditious Libel | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Diversity in the Early Republic | |
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| Newspapers and an Informed Public | |
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| Modernization and the Postal Dilemma | |
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| Continuing Political Tradition | |
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| Foreign-Language Press and Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds | |
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| Labor Press | |
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| Native-American Press Responds to European Settlement | |
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| African-American Newspapers as a Response to White Society | |
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| Magazines | |
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| The Struggle to Circulate 000 | |
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| The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository | |
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| The Port Folio | |
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| Book Publishing as a Challenge to Cultural Norms | |
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| Technology, Production, and Labor | |
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| Relationship to Religion and Values | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Penny Papers in the Metropolis | |
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| Characteristics of the Penny Press | |
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| Advertising: Buyer Beware | |
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| Continuity and Change in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| The New York Leaders | |
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| Benjamin Day and the New YorkSun | |
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| James Gordon Bennett and the New YorkHerald | |
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| Reasons for Development | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Media in an Expanding Nation | |
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| Expansion Unifies and Divides | |
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| Transportation and Communication | |
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| Postal Express | |
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| Technology and Communications | |
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| Telegraph: Technological and Cultural Change | |
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| Communication and the Movement Westward | |
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| Mexican War: Of Words and Images | |
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| Frontier Newspapers | |
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| Oral Culture and the Lecture Circuit | |
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| Evolution of the Penny Press | |
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| Horace Greeley and the New YorkTribune | |
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| Henry Jarvis Raymond and the New York Times | |
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| ChicagoTribune | |
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| Press Development in the Antebellum South | |
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| The RichmondEnquirer and the Southern Partisan Press | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Communicat | |