Index
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Introduction - Background and Beginnings
- Part 1: A Short Word of Explanation
- Part 2: Writing and Printing
- Part 3: News in Print and Elsewhere
- Part 4: Journals, Magazines, and the Birth of American Journalism
- Part 5: The News Business in the New Country
Chapter 2: 19th-Century Conditions of Growth
- Part 1: Market Growth in the Nineteenth Century
- Part 2: Affordability: Subscriptions
- Part 3: Paper
- Part 4: Postal Issues
- Part 5: Rate Structure in the Penny Press
- Part 6: Appendix
Chapter 5: African American Magazines in the 19th Century
- Part 1: African American Magazines in the 19th Century
- Part 2: Abolitionist Publications
- Part 3: Frederick Douglass and the North Star
- Part 4: William Whipper and the National Reformer
- Part 5: The Christian Recorder Under and After Elisha Weaver
- Part 6: Monthlies and Quarterlies of the 1890s
- Part 7: Appendix