In the modern era, there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture--books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. Thi

Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth

Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unpara

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, ye

The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the presen