Historical papers and addresses / Lebanon County Historical Society) ; v. 1, no. 1
Notes
"Addresses delivered at the first stated meeting of the Lebanon County Historical Society, held in the Court House, Lebanon, PA., Friday, Feberuary 18, 1898."
Summary
The Hebron Diary tells of events during the Revolutionary War period in Hebron, the settlement that later became Lebanon, PA. The author gives commentary about entries in the diary.
edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench ; with a foreword by Marcus A. McCorison ; and an afterword by James Russell Wiggins.
ISBN
0912296186 :
Place of Publication
Worcester, [Mass.]
Publisher
American Antiquarian Society,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
383 p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Essays: 1. Printers and the American Revolution -- by Stephen Botein / 2. Freedom of the press in revolutionary America : The evolution of libertarianism, 1760 - 1820 -- by Richard Buel Jr / 3. The role of the newspaper press in the southern colonies on the eve of the Revolution : an interpretation -- by Robert M. Weir / 4. The Colonial German-language press and the American Revolution -- by Willi Paul Adams / 5. The character and coherence of the Loyalist press -- by Janice Potter and Robert M. Calhoon / 6. British correspondence in the colonial press, 1763 - 1775 ; a study in Anglo-American Misunderstanding before the American Revolution -- by Paul Langford / 7. Some statistics on American printing, 1764-1783, by G. Thomas Tanselle / 8. Afterword : The Legacy of the Press in the American Revolution, by James Russell Wiggins
Summary
In the forward, the book is described as a colleciton of "essays on the activities, place, and influence of American printers and journalists during the period of our Revolution."
