Communication and community
Communities of production: Teleology and news, the religious roots of American journalism, 1630-1730; Authority of truth, religion and the John Peter Zenger case; Newspapers and American nationhood, 1776-1826; Tocqueville, Garrison, and the perfection of journalism; Public community, the urbanization of journalism in Chicago; Business values of American newspapers, the nineteenth-century watershed; Paradox of municipal reform in the late nineteenth century
Communities of reception: Republican literature, a study of magazine readers and reading in late eighteenth-century New York; Readership as citizenship in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia; Working-class readers, family, community, and reading in late nineteenth-century America; Reading the newspaper, strategies and politics of reader response, Chicago, 1912-17; Readers love to argue about the news, but not in newspapers
Afterword: Newspapers, readers, and communities today
Teleology and news: the religious roots of American journalism, 1630-1730
The authority of truth: religion and the John Peter Zenger case
Newspapers and American nationhood, 1776-1826
Tocqueville, Garrison, and the perfection of journalism
The public community: the urbanization of journalism in Chicago
The business of values of American newspapers: the nineteenth-century watershed
The paradox of municipal reform in the late nineteenth-century
A republican literature: a study of magazine readers and reading in late eighteenth-century New York
Readership as citizenship in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia
Working-class readers: family, community, and reading in late nineteenth-century America
Reading the newspaper: strategies and politics of reader response, Chicago, 1912-17
Readers love to argue about the news-but not in newspapers.
