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Adelman, Joseph M. \u201c\u2018A Constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, Public and Private\u2019: The Post Office, the Business of Printing, and the American Revolution.\u201d Enterprise and Society<\/em> 11 (December 2010): 709\u2013752.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bergmann, William H. \u201cDelivering a Nation through the Mail: The Post Office in the Ohio Valley, 1789\u20131815.\u201d Ohio Valley History<\/em> 8 (Fall 2008): 1\u201318.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blevins, Cameron.  Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Jerald E. “It Facilitated Correspondence: The Post, Postmasters, and Newspaper Publishing in Colonial America.”  Retrospection<\/em> 2:1 (1989): 1-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Richard D. Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desai, Anuj C.  \u201cThe Transformation of Statutes into Constitutional Law: How Early Post Office Policy Shaped Modern First Amendment Doctrine.\u201d  Hastings Law Journal<\/em> 58 (March 2007): 671-727.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desai, Anuj C.  \u201cWiretapping Before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy.\u201d  Stanford Law Review<\/em> 60:2 (November 2007): 553-594.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dierks, Konstantin.  In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America<\/em>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellis, Ryan.  \u201cDisinfecting the Mail: Disease, Panic, and the Post Office Department in Nineteenth-Century America.\u201d Information & Culture<\/em> 52:4 (2017): 436-461.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foley, Michael S. \u201cA Mission Unfulfilled: The Post Office and the Distribution of Information in Rural New England, 1821-1835.\u201d Journal of the Early Republic<\/em> 17:4 (Winter 1997): 611-650.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fowler, Dorothy.  Unmailable: Congress and the Post Office<\/em>.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller, Wayne E.  \u201cThe South and the Rural Free Delivery of Mail.\u201d Journal of Southern History <\/em>25:4 (November 1959): 499-521.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller, Wayne E.  RFD: The Changing Face of Rural America<\/em>.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller, Wayne E.  The American Mail: Enlarger of the Common Life<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller, Wayne E.  Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth Century America<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallagher, Winfred.\u00a0\u00a0How the Post Office Created America<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Penguin, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris, Robert Dalton, and Diane De Blois. \u201cNineteenth-Century American Genre Paintings: Reading Newspapers in Tavern Post Offices.\u201d In\u00a0Postal History: Multidisciplinary and Diachronic Perspectives<\/em>, edited by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi and Raffaella Gerola, 115\u201330. Prato: Istituto di Studi Storici Postali, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hecht, Arthur.  “Pennsylvania Postal History of the Eighteenth Century.”  Pennsylvania History<\/em> 30 (October 1963): 420-442.

Henkin, David M.  The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John, Richard. Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse.  <\/em>Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy, Jane.  \u201cUnited States Postal Rates, 1848-1951.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kielbowicz, Richard B.  News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700-1860s<\/em>.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kielbowicz, Richard B. \u201cPostal Subsidies for the Press and the Business of Mass Culture, 1880-1920.\u201d Business History Review<\/em> 64:3 (Autumn 1990): 451-488.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rohrer, James R.  \u201cSunday Mail and the Church-State Theory in Jacksonian America.\u201d  Journal of the Early Republic<\/em> 7 (Spring 1987): 53-74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheele, Carl H.  A Short History of the Mail Service<\/em>.  Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, William.  The History of the Post Office in British North America, 1639-1870<\/em>.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart, Robert K. “The Exchange System and the Development of American Politics in the 1820s.” American Journalism<\/em> 4 (1987): 30-42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van der Linden, F. Robert.  Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry<\/em>.  Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verhoeven, Tim. \u201cThe Case for Sunday Mails: Sabbath Laws and the Separation of Church and State in Jacksonian America.\u201d Journal of Church and State<\/em> 55 (Winter 2013): 71\u201391.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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