Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers

DAVID A. COPELAND is the A. J. Fletcher Professor of Communication at Elon University. A past president of the American Journalism Historians Association, he was named Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Virginia Professor of the Year in 1998.

• Introduction: Newspaper in Colonial America Censorship, Printing Control and Freedom of the Press, 1690 The Inoculation Controversy, 1721 Impartiality, Objectivity and the Press, 1729 Attakulakula Visits King George, 1730: Native American-English Relations The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 Women's Rights, 1738 The Stono Rebellion, 1739 The Great Awakening and George Whitefield, 1739-1745 Religious Divisions, 1740-1745 Massachusetts Legalizes Lotteries, 1744 Medical Discoveries: The Amazing Tar Water, 1745 Paper Money and the Currency Act, 1751 The New York Public Education Controversy, 1753-1755 The Albany Congress, Plan of Union, and French and Indian War, 1754-1763 The Cherokee War, 1759-1761 The Stamp Act Crisis, 1765-1766 No Taxation without Representation, 1765-1766 Tories versus Patriots, 1768-1775 The Sons of Liberty, 1765-1776 Nonimportation, 1768-1775 The Boston Massacre, 1770 Religious Liberty: Baptists Call for Toleration, 1770-1776 The Somerset Case and the Anti-Slavery Controversy, 1772 The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party, 1773-1774 The Continental Congress, 1774-1775 Edenton Tea Party and Perceptions of Women, 1774 Arguments over Going to War with England, 1774-1776 Separation from England, 1768-1776 Battles of Lexington and Concord, 1775 Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense, 1776 The Declaration of Independence, 1776 Chronology of Events Selected Bibliography Index