Table of Contents

 

I. Oral culture within early America

1. Oratory of North American Indians

2. Lawrence Levine. Chapter 2: "The Meaning of Slave Tales." In Black Culture and Black Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 81-135.

 

II. Framework of literacy

3. Harvey J. Graff. "Literacy and Social Development in North America: On Ideology and History." In The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on literacy Past and Present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995, pp. 61-81.

4. Jamie Candelaria Greene. "Misperspectives on Literacy: A Critique of an Anglocentric Bias in Histories of American Literacy." Written Communication 11:2 (Apr. 1994), 251-69.

 

III. Native Americans' interaction with empire

5. William Simmons  "Cultural Bias in the New England Puritans' Perception of Indians." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, XXXVIII (1981), 56-72.

6. Charles C. Mann. Chapter 2: "Why Billington Survived." In 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Knopf, 2005, pp. 31-61.

7. Frederic W. Gleach. "Controlled Speculation: Interpreting the Saga of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith." In Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native HistoryPeterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1996, 21-42.

8. John Eliot's Indian Dialogues: A Study in Cultural Interaction. Ed. Henry W. Bowden and James P. Ronda. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. (Contributions in American History, 88). Includes text of 1671 edition of Eliot's Dialogues. "Introduction," pp. 3-40.

9. Hilary E. Wyss. Chap. I. "Literacy, Captivity, and Redemption: The Christian Indians of King Philip's War." In Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000, pp. 17-51.

 

IV. Education in early America

10. History of American Education Web Project. http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/%7Ecfrnb/index.html

Colonial Period of American Education about 1600-1776; Early National Period of American Education about 1776-1840); Common School Period of American Education (ca. 1840-1880)

11. Focus on American Indian Education http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/infoline/dec99/5.html

12. "To Learn Another Way." Native American Testimony. New York: Viking, 1991, pp. 213-24.

13. Janet Duitsman Cornelius. "When I Can Read My Title Clear." Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South. Introduction and Epilogue, pp. 1-10, 142-50. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

13. James A. Sandos. Chap. 1. "California's Missions as Instruments of Social Control." In Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 1-13.

 

V. The Bestseller. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

15. Susan Coultrap-McQuin. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Chap. 4. "The Impact of Domestic Feminism: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Mature Career." Pp. 79-104.

 

VI. Information infrastructure; publishing and printing expansion

16. Allan R. Pred. Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790-1840. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. Chap. 2. "The Long-Distance Flow of Information Through Newspapers." Pp. 20-77.

17. Richard D. Brown. Chap. 2. "The Ancien Regime of Information Diffusion in the British Colonies." A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Ed. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and James W. Cortada. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 39-53.

18. Shane White. Somewhat More Independent. The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1991. Chap. 3. "Impious Prayers." Pp. 56-75.

19. Richard R. John. Chap. 3. "Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age." A Nation Transformed by Information (2000). Pp. 55-86.

 

VII. Newspapers and periodicals

20. Tomas Almaguer. Chap. 2. "The True Significance of the Word 'White'," pp. 45-74. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

21. Leonard Pitt. "El Clamor publico: Sentiments of Treason." In The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962, pp. 181-94.

22. "American Indian Newspapers, 1828 to the Civil War." Let My People Know: American Indian Journalism, 1828-1978. Ed. James E. Murphy and Sharon M. Murphy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981, pp. 16-38.

23. Frankie Hutton. The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, 157). Pp. 3-25.

24. "10th Century Chinese Newspapers." Part 2 of Chinese Book Arts and California. st1:City w:st="on">San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989.

25. Lonnie G. Bunch. " 'The Greatest State for the Negro': Jefferson L. Edmonds, Black Propagandist of the California Dream." In Seeking El Dorado. African Americans in California.  Ed. Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor. Seattle: Autry Museum of Western Heritage (Los Angeles) in association with University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. 129-48.

 

VIII. Chinese in California

26. Chen Na. Chapter VII. "Social Harmony and Personal Fulfillment: An Analysis of Traditional Chinese Culture." In Relations Between Cultures. Edited by George F. McLean and John Kromkowski. Washington, D. C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1991, pp. 141-60.

27. Ronald Takaki. Chapter X. "The 'Heathen Chinee' and American Technology," pp. 215-49. In Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

28. Stuart Creighton Miller. Chapter 6. "The Mass Media Era, 1850-1870," pp. 113-41. The Unwelcome Immigrant: The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

29. Otis Gibson. Chap. XIII: "The Anti-Chinese Crusade," pp. 293-332. The Chinese in America/T'ong Yan Choi Kam Shan. Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, 1877.