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• United States -- History -- 19th century

• Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1989), by James L. Crouthamel (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, VA: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1934), by David Kelly Jackson, contrib. by J. H. Whitty (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Central Ideas in the Development of American Journalism: A Narrative History, by Marvin N. Olasky (PDF at AWS)
• History of American journalism. By James Melvin Lee. (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by James Melvin Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la presse en Angleterre et aux États Unis (Amyot, 1857), by Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• First joint banquet of the Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publishers' Association : at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, Wednesday, April twenty-second, 1908. (s.n., 1908), by American Newspaper Publishers Association and Associated Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States newspapers and the beginnings of Argentine independence. (University of Colorado], 1961), by Fritz L. Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The career and reminiscences of an amateur journalist and a history of amateur journalism. ([s.n.], 1883), by Thomas G. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future, by Jim Hartz and Rick Chappell (PDF at Freedom Forum)

• Facts and Fascism (New York: In Fact, c1943), by George Seldes, contrib. by Helen Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making News at the New York Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Nikki Usher (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Making News at the New York Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Nikki Usher (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America (originally published 2016; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2021), by Peter Knight (PDF and HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Hearst and his enemies (Arno, 1970), by Edward T. O'Loughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical Society : the colonial newspaper press described by Colonel Stone : a communication from President Roberts : the Steuben monument : new members elected : the address. (Oneida Historical Society at Utica?, 1890), by William Leete Stone and Oneida Historical Society at Utica (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sacramento placer times : 1849-1851 (Zamorano Club, 1950), by John B. Goodman, Homer H. Boelter, and Zamorano Club (page images at HathiTrust)

• The newspaper and periodical publishing industry in Illinois from 1880 to 1915 (1916), by Frederic Arthur Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A history of the press of Michigan (Times Steam Presses, 1876), by Tom S. Applegate and Michigan. Governor (1873-1876 : Bagley) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire de la Presse Franco-Américaine: Comprenant l'Historique de l'Émigration des Canadiens-Français aux États-Unis, Leur Développment, et Leurs Progrès (in French; Worcester, MA: Ateliers typographiques de "L'Opinion Publique", 1911), by Alexandre Belisle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• History of American journalism. By James Melvin Lee. (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by James Melvin Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la presse en Angleterre et aux États Unis (Amyot, 1857), by Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical, biographical, and miscellaneous gatherings (Printed by the Republican press association, 1886), by John W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ohio Valley press before the war of 1812-15 (The Davis Press, 1909), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mr. Justice Black and His Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Tinsley E. Yarbrough (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), by Thomas C. Leonard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People (New York et al.: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Robert Zecker
  • PDF files with commentary at Bloomsbury Academic
  • PDF at OAPEN

• The Pioneer Press of Kentucky: From the Printing of the First Paper West of the Alleghanies, August 11, 1787, to the Establishment of the Daily Press in 1830 (Filson Club Publications #3; Louisville: J. P. Morton and Co., 1888), by William Henry Perrin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• History of the press of Maine (From the Press [of J. Griffin] ..., 1874), by Joseph Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The press of Southern California, 1873 : ([Printed by Muir Dawson, 1951), by Benjamin Cummings Truman and Muir Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Press gang : a century of Montana newspapers, 1885-1985 (Montana Press Association, 1985), by Sam Gilluly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore (Gutenberg text)
• The 19th century : A history. (Harper, 1880), by Robert Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États Unis (C. Gosselin; [etc., etc.], 1840), by Michel Chevalier and Charles Gosselin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unpublished orations : "The discovery of the Columbia River, and the Whitman controversy" ; "The Crispus Attucks memorial", and "Columbus memorial" (Boston : The Bibliophile Society, MDCDIX [1909], 1909), by John Fiske, W. H. W. Bicknell, William P. Trent, Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co, and Mass.) Bibliophile Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plague of kaiserdom (California State Printing Office, 1918), by William V. Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old and the new century : an address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its ninety-sixth anniversary, Tuesday, November 20, 1900 (Printed for the Society, 1900), by Marvin Richardson Vincent and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Division and reunion, 1829-1889 (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Randolph (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Henry Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little visits with great Americans; or, Success ideals and how to attain them (Success, 1905), by Orison Swett Marden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)

• Catalogue of the library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893. (Printed for the Society [Baltimore, Press of Deutsch lithographing & printing co.], 1893), by Long Island Historical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• The red moon (Neale Publishing Company, 1910), by Eugenie Jones Bacon and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Woman of Yesterday, by Caroline Atwater Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hand-Made Gentleman: A Tale of the Battles of Peace, by Irving Bacheller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life, by B. F. Craig (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wanderings of French Ed, by J. Adelard René (Gutenberg ebook)

• ...Uncle Sam's soldiers; a story of the war with Spain (D. Appleton and company, 1899), by Oscar P. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Littell's Living Age (partial serial archives)
• The American review of history and politics, and general repository of literature and state papers (Printed for Farrand and Nicholas, 1811), by Robert Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

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