A Place of Reading: Bibliography

Bibliography

Isaiah Thomas, Reader

Thomas, Benjamin Franklin. Memoir of Isaiah Thomas By His Grandson/Benjamin Franklin Thomas. Boston, 1874.

Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America. Worcester, 1810.

Part I: Three Centuries of Reading Places

The Colonial Home

Amory, Hugh and David Hall, eds. A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2000.

Bowman, George. “Deacon John Paine’s Journal.” In The Mayflower Descendent, 1906. Facsimile Reprint. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995.

Davidson, Cathy, ed. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Book History Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Henry Holt &
Co., 1916.

Hall, David D. Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Joyce, William Leonard et al., eds. Printing and Society in Early America. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Seventy Series—Vol. VII: Diary of Cotton Mather, 1681–1708. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1911.

Monaghan, Jennifer. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

Williams, Julie Hedgepeth. The Significance of the Printed Word in Early America: Colonists’ Thoughts on the Role of the Press. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Revolutionary Taverns

Amory, Hugh and David Hall, eds. A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2000.

Archiving Early America. July 2009. <http://www.earlyamerica.com/>.
See especially:
“Freedom Documents”
”Lives of Early Americans”
“Boston Massacre”
“World of Early America”

Conroy, David. In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Edes, Henry Herbert. “Memoir of Dr. Thomas Young, 1731–1777.” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 11. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1910.

Goss, Elbridge Henry. The Life of Colonel Paul Revere. Boston: J. G. Cupples, 1891.

Hayes, Kevin J. The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Lowance, Mason and Georgia Bumgardner, eds., Massachusetts Broadsides of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976.

Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism: The History of Newspapers in the United States through 250 years, 1690–1940. New York: Macmillan, 1949.

Personal Libraries of Early Presidents

Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive. The Massachusetts Historical Society. August 2009. <http://www.masshist.org/>.

Adams National Historic Park. August 2009. <http://www.nps.gov/adam/john-adams-biography.htm>.

Amory, Hugh and David Hall, eds. A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2000.

George Washington Birthplace National Monument. July 2009. <http://www.nps.gov/gewa/index.htm>.

George Washington’s Mount Vernon Garden and Estates. August 2009. <http://www.mountvernon.org/>.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: Libraries, Leadership, and Legacy. Papers presented as part of the symposium. June 21–27, 2009. <http://www.adamsjefferson.com/papers.htm>.
See especially:
Kevin Hayes, “Jefferson’s Vacation Library.”
Heather Jackson, “John Adams’ Marginalia Then and Now.”
Mary Kelley, “Commentator: Libraries and the Enlightenment.”
Marcus McCorison: “Adams and Jefferson as Book Collectors.”
Beth Prindle: “Thought, Care, and Money: John Adams Assembles His Library.”
Jeff Looney: “ ‘I shall not retain a single one.? The Limits of Thomas Jefferson’s Library Catalogues.”
Mark Dimunation: “ ‘The whole of recorded knowledge?” Jefferson as Reader and Collector.”

McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Touchstone/Simon &Schuster, 2002.

Nash, George H. Books and the Founding Fathers. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1989.

Thomas Jefferson’s Libraries, August 2009. <http://tjlibraries.dataformat.com>.

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. August 2009. <http://www.monticello.org/index.html>.

Toner, Joseph M. Some account of George Washington library and manuscript records and their dispersion from Mount Vernon. 1892. American Libraries/University of California Libraries. July 2009. <http://www.archive.org/details/someaccountofgeo00tonerich>.

North/South/East/West

Casper, Scott, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds., A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007.

Chronicling America: America’s Historic Newspapers. Library of Congress. September 2009. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/>.

Cornelius, Janet. “‘We Slipped and Learned to Read’: Slave Accounts of the Literary Process, 1830–1865.” Phylon. Vol. 44, No. 3 (3rd qtr 1983): 171–186.

Davidson, Cathy, ed. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Kevin Hayes. “Railway Reading.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 106, Part 2. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1997.

Lehuu, Isabelle. Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Rediscovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.

Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism: The History of Newspapers in the United States through 250 Years, 1690–1940. New York: Macmillan, 1949.

Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womenhood, 1820–1860.” American Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, Part 1 (Summer 1966): 151–174.

Willis, N. P. “The Novel Reader.” In The Winter Wreath. New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1853.

Reading at the Front - The Civil War

Bullard, Frederic Lauriston. Famous War Correspondents. Boston: Little, Brown, 1914.

Casper, Scott, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007.

Kaser, David. Books and Libraries in Camps and Battle: The Civil War Experience. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism: The History of Newspapers in the United States through 250 Years, 1690–1940. New York: Macmillan, 1949.

Nelson, Michael C. “Writing during Wartime: Gender and Literacy in the American Civil War.” Journal of American Studies, Vol. 31. No. 1 (April 1987): 43–68.

Part II: Image Bank of Reading Places

Reading Music in the Music Room and Beyond

Crawford, Richard and D. W. Krummel. “Early American Music Printing and Publishing.” In Printing and Society in Early America, ed. William Leonard Joyce et al. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983, 186–227.

Casper, Scott, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007.

Reading in the Kitchen

Theophano, Janet. Eat My Words, Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Willis, N. P. “The Novel Reader.” In The Winter Wreath. New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1853.

Reading at the Bath

Bushman, Robert and Claudia Bushman. “The Early History of Cleanliness in America.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 74. No. 4. (March 1988): 1213–1238.

Reading in Reading Places

Carpenter, Kenneth. “Libraries,” in Scott Casper, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. A History of the Book in America. Volume Three.The Industrial Book, 1840–1880,. . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007, 303–318.

Reading in Prison Libraries

Sullivan, Larry E. “Prison Libraries.” In Encyclopedia of Library History,. Wayne Wiegand and Donald David, eds.. New York, Garland Publishing, 1994, 510–515.

Reading in Public Spaces

Henkin, David M. “City Streets and the Urban World of Print,” in Scott Casper, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007, 331–345.

Women Readers

Hackel, Heidi Brayman and Catherine E. Kelly, eds. Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Sicherman, Barbara. “Ideologies and Practices of Reading.” In A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880, ed. Scott Casper, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007, 279–302.

Thomas, Amy. “Literacies, Readers, and Cultures of Print in the South,” in Scott Casper, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880,.. . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007, 373–390.

Sicherman, Barbara. “Sense and Sensibility: A Case Study of Women’s Reading in Late Victorian America.” In Reading in America: Literature and Social History, ed. Cathy Davidson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Little Readers

Monaghan, Jennifer. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

Stevenson, Louise. “Homes, Books, and Reading.,” in Scott Casper, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880,. . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007, 319–331.

Sicherman, Barbara. "Idealogies and Practices of Reading," in Scott Casper, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. A History of the Book in America. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007, 279–302.

Reluctant and Imaginative “Readers”

Casper, Scott, Jeffrey Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds. In A History of the Book in America. Volume Three. The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, and Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2007.

Kaser, David. Books and Libraries in Camps and Battle: The Civil War Experience. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.