In this video, Elizabeth Watts Pope, the Society’s curator of books and digital collections, introduces when and where printing began in colonial America and how it developed over the course of the eighteenth century.
This educational video explores themes discussed in The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800, the 2021 NEH summer institute.
Primary sources, listed in order of appearance
The following primary sources were discussed in this video.
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| 0:32 |
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Enlarge image | The history of printing in America ... | AAS catalog record |
| 1:04 |
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Enlarge image | Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature | AAS catalog record |
| 1:58 |
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Enlarge image | By the governour and Council | AAS catalog record |
| 2:17 |
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Enlarge image | Remarks on the trial of John-Peter Zenger ... | AAS catalog record |
| 2:17 | The trial of John Peter Zenger ... | AAS catalog record | ||
| 2:17 | The Case and tryal of John Peter Zenger ... | AAS catalog record | ||
| 3:18 |
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Enlarge image | The Boston news-letter. | AAS catalog record |
| 3:23 |
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Enlarge image | The Weekly Jamaica courant | AAS catalog record |
| 3:27 |
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Enlarge image | Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded. | AAS catalog record |
| 3:52 |
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Enlarge image | A catalogue of books, lately imported from Britain ... | AAS catalog record |
| 4:22 |
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Enlarge image | Michigan essay or, The impartial observer. | AAS catalog record |
| 4:42 |
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Enlarge image | Poems on various subjects, religious and moral ... | AAS catalog record |
| 4:52 | Maps are from The colonial book in the Atlantic world | AAS catalog record | ||
| 5:12 |
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Enlarge image | American bibliography: A chronological dictionary of all books, pamphlets, and periodical publications ... | AAS catalog record |
| 5:33 |
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Enlarge image | Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America ... | AAS catalog record |
| 5:48 |
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Enlarge image | The Psalms of David, with hymns and spiritual songs. | AAS catalog record |
| 6:08 |
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Enlarge image | The American primer improved. | AAS catalog record |
| 6:18 |
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Enlarge image | The New-England primer, improved ... | AAS catalog record |
| 6:33 |
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Enlarge image | Rivington's New-York gazetteer ... | AAS catalog record |
| 6:58 |
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Enlarge image | The Boston news-letter. | AAS catalog record |
| 8:02 |
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Enlarge image | A geographical view of all the post towns in the United states of America ... | AAS catalog record |
| 8:17 |
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Enlarge image | A premium. | AAS catalog record |
| 8:37 |
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Enlarge image | Portsmouth, April 15th, 1791. | AAS catalog record |
| 8:47 |
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Enlarge image | The American jest book | AAS catalog record |
| 9:02 |
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Enlarge image | The Green Dragon Tavern, 1773 | AAS catalog record |
| 9:23 |
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Enlarge image | All in my eye! | AAS catalog record |
| 9:33 |
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Enlarge image | The triumphs of temper ... | AAS catalog record |
| 10:13 |
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Enlarge image | An epitome of universal geography ... | AAS catalog record |
| 10:28 |
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Enlarge image | Scale of prices of the Baltimore Typographical Society ... | AAS catalog record |
| 10:33 |
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Enlarge image | A short history of the printing press ... | AAS catalog record |
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