News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700-1860s

Preface The Press, Post Office, and American Development The Common Descent of the Colonial Post Office and Press The First U.S. Postal Policy and the Press The Cultural Politics of Newspaper Mails in the Age of Jackson Antebellum Experiments with Newspaper Postal Policy Antebellum Postal Operations and the Availability of News Magazines, Books, and the Problem of Formats News Gathering by Mail Speeding the News by Postal Express News in the Mail Bibliography Index