I. Oral culture within early America
1. "North American Indian Oratory." Early American Writing. Edited by Giles Gunn. New York: Penguin, 1994. Pp. 405-13. Chief Powhatan. Chief Logan. Chief Tecumseh.
2. "Native American Literature in Colonial Period, Oratory." Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations: First Encounter to Dispossesion. 2nd ed. Edited by Peter Nabokov. London: Viking Penguin, 1978, 1991. Pp. 54-46, 64-67.
3. Leanne Hinton. Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1994. Chapter 2: "Song: Overcoming the Language Barrier," pp. 39-43.
4. Lawrence Levine. Black Culture and Black Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Chapter 2: "The Meaning of Slave Tales," pp. 81-135.
II. Framework of literacy
5. Harvey J. Graff. The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. Part II:2: "Literacy and Social Development in North America: On Ideology and History," pp. 61-81.
6. 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.
7. George Miles. "To Hear an Old Voice: Rediscovering Native Americans in American History." In Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past, edited by William Cronon, George Miels, and Jay Gitlin (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 52-70.
III. Native Americans' interaction with empire
8. William Simmons. "Cultural Bias in the New England Puritans' Perception of Indians." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, XXXVIII (1981), pp. 56-72.
9. John Eliot's Indian Dialogues: A Study in Cultural Interaction. Edited by Henry W. Bowden and James P. Ronda. Westport, CT: Greenwood press, 1980. (Contributions in American History, Number 88) Includes text of 1671 edition. Introduction, pp. 3-40.
10. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. 1682. In
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. 1682. Title page. Narratives of the Indian Wars 1675-1600. Edited by Charles H. Lincoln. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Pp. 118-67. 1773 edition, with pictures.
11. Roy Harvey Pearce. "The Significances of the Captivity Narrative." American Literature XIX:1 (Mar. 1947), 1-20.
12. David A. Copeland. Colonial Newspapers: Character and Content. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. Chapter 2: "The Skulking Indian Enemy," pp. 42-68.
IV. Education in early America
13. Lawrence A. Cremin. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Chapter 13: "The Business of Living," pp. 387-407.
14. Richard D. Altick. "The Reading Public in England and America in 1900." Literature in Western Civilization. The Modern World. II. Realities. General editors, David Daiches and Anthony Thoreby. London: Aldus Books, 1972. Pp. 547-68.
15. [on the web] Jonathan Rose, "Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences," Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Jan. - Mar., 1992), pp. 47-70. Go to UC's web site (www.uclibs.org/PID/922) and search by author.
16. "To Learn Another Way." Native American Testimony, 1991. PP. 213-25. Ellis Childers (Cree), 1882. Lone Wolf (Blackfoot), 1883. Sun Elk (Pueblo). Anonymous (Blackfoot).
17. Gregory Eiselein. Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Chapter 6: "Eccentric Benevolence and Its Limits." Pp. 133-56.
18. John J. Ogbu. "Literacy and Schooling in Subordinate Cultures: The Case of Black Americans." Literacy in Historical Perspective. Edited by Daniel Resnick. Washington: Library of Congress, 1983. Pp. 129-83.
V. The Bestseller. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1855.
19. Susan Coultrap-McQuin. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Chapter 4: "The Impact of Domestic Feminism: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Mature Career." Pp. 79-104.
VI. Information infrastructure; publishing and printing expansion
20. Allan R. Pred. Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790-1840. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. Chapter 2: "The Long-Distance Flow of Information Through Newspapers." Pp. 20-77.
21. Richard D. Brown. 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. Chapter 2: "The Ancien Régime of Information Diffusion in the British Colonies." Pp. 39-53.
22. Richard R. John. A Nation Transformed... Chapter 3: "Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age." Pp. 55-86.
23. Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt. The Book in america: A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States. 2nd ed. New York: Bowker, 1952, pp. 211-32.
VII. Newspapers and periodicals
24. "American Indian Newspapers, 1828 to the Civil War." Let My People Know: American Indian Journalism, 1828-1978. Edited by James E. Murphy and Sharon M.Murphy. Norman: University of Oklahoma press, 1981. Pp. 16-38.
25. Leonard Pitt. The Deline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. "El Clamor público: Sentiments of Treason," pp. 181-94.
26. Alice Fahs. The Imagined Civil War. Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Chapter 5: "Kingdom Coming: The Emancipation of Popular Literature," pp. 150-94.
27. Frankie Hutton. The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860. Westport, CT: Greenwood press, 1993. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, Number 157) Pp. 3-25.
28. "19th Century Chinese Newspapers." Part 2 of Chinese Book Arts and California. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989.
29. Lonnie G. Bunch III. "The Greatest State for the Negro": Jefferson L. Edmonds, Black Propagandist of the California Dream." In Seeking El Dorado. African Americans in California. Edited by 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. Other Cultural Voices: Chinese, Chicano/Latino
30. Ronald Takaki. Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America. New York: Oxford University. Press, 1990. Chapter X: "The 'Heathen Chinee' and American Technology," pp. 215-49.
31. Stuart Creighton Miller. The Unwelcome Immigrant: The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Chapter 6: "The Mass Media Era, 1850-1870," pp. 113-41.
32. Otis Gibson. The Chinese in America/T'ong Yán Choi Kum Shán. Cincinnatti: Hitchcock & Walden, 1877. Chapter XIII: "The Anti-Chinese Crusade," pp. 293-332. Photo of cover.
33. Tomás Almaguer. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Chapter 2: "The True Significance of the Word 'White'," pp. 45-74.