The Newspaper and the Culture of Print in the Early American Republic
Led by David Paul Nord and John Nerone
Encountering Revolution: Print Culture, Politics, and the British American Loyalists
Led by Ed Larkin and Phil Gould
The Global American South and Early American Print Culture
Led by Jeannine DeLombard and Lloyd Pratt
Re-Reading the Early Republic: From Crevecoeur to Cooper
Led by Wayne Franklin, Jeffrey Walker, and Lance Schachterle
"Re-reading the Early Republic" will explore the expansion of the press as an element in American public culture from the end of the Revolution to 1830. This was a period of remarkable growth in both the number and nature of items published and in the role of the press in public life. Paying particular attention to the practices of textual production as these evolved across the five decades, we shall be concerned with three key issues: