Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252028120
Subjects: Communication Studies; Postal & telecommunications industries; Language Arts & Disciplines; Religion - Socialissues; Language; Christian Life - Political Issues; Christian Ministry - Evangelism; United States - 19th Century; Religion / General; Communication; 19th century; History; Postal Service; Sunday legislation; United States
First sentence: On the first day of every week in the early winter months of 1810 an almost eerie stillness lay upon towns and villages along the great post roads from Maine to Georgia and from the nation's capital to Tennessee.