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Adams, Stephen B.  \u201cArc of Empire: The Federal Telegraph Company, the U.S. Navy, and the Beginnings of Silicon Valley.\u201d Business History Review<\/em> 91: 2 (2017): 329-359.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrews, Melodie.  “What the Girls Can Do: The Debate Over the Employment of Women in the Early American Telegraph Industry.”  Essays in Economic and Business History<\/em> 8 (1990): 109-120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arceneaux, Noah.  \u201cNews on the Air: The New York Herald<\/em>, Newspapers, and Wireless Telegraphy, 1899-1917.  American Journalism<\/em> 30:2 (Spring 2013): 160-181.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arrington, Leonard.  \u201cThe Deseret Telegraph.\u201d Journal of Economic History<\/em> 11 (1951): 117-139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates, Alice.  \u201cThe History of the Telegraph in California.\u201d Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California<\/em> 9 (1914): 181-187.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blondheim, Menahem. News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897. <\/em>Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bork, Ulf Jonas.  \u201cForeign Correspondence in the Early Telegraphic era: The Herald<\/em>, the Tribune<\/em>, and the 1848 Revolutions.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 40:4 (Fall 2023): 447-467.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briggs, Charles F.  The Story of the Telegraph, and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable<\/em>.  New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britton, John A.  Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866-1903<\/em>.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooker-Gross, Susan R.  “Nineteenth Century News Definitions and Wire Service Usage.”  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 60 (Spring 1983): 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calhoun, Gloria. \u201cWhy Wire Mattered: Building U.S. Networked Infrastructures, 1845-1910.\u201d Technology and Culture<\/em>62: 1 (2021): 156-184.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carey, Craig. \u201cBreaking the News: Telegraphy and Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War.\u201d  American Periodicals<\/em> 26:2 (2016): 130-148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carey, James W.  Communication As Culture: Essays on Media and Society<\/em>.  Chapter 8 “Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph.”  Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chandler, Robert J.  \u201cThe California News-Telegraph Monopoly, 1860-1870.\u201d Southern California Quarterly<\/em> 58:4 (Winter 1976): 459-484.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coe, Lewis.  The Telegraph: A History of Morse’s Invention and Its Predecessors<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cowen, Ruth Schwartz.  A Social History of American Technology<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies, Hannah Catherine. \u201cSpreading Fear, Communicating Trust: Writing Letters and Telegrams during the Panic of 1873.\u201d History and Technology<\/em> 32, no. 2 (2016): 159\u2013177.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DuBoff, Richard D.  “The Rise of Communications Regulation: The Telegraph Industry, 1845-1860.”  Journal of Communications <\/em>34 (Summer 1984): 52-66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Du Boff, Richard B.  \u201cThe Telegraph in Nineteenth-Century America: Technology and Monopoly.\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 26:4 (October 1984): 571-586.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downey, Gregory J.  Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Communication, and Technology<\/em> 1850-1950.  New York: Routledge, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DuBoff, Richard B.  \u201cThe Rise of Communications Regulation: The Telegraph Industry, 1844-1880.\u201d  Journal of Communication<\/em> 34:3 (Summer 1984): 52-66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ely, Richard T.  “Should the Government Control the Telegraph?”  Arena<\/em> (December 1895): 49-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Field, Henry M.  The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph<\/em>.  New York: Scribner’s, 1892.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

File, Patrick C.  Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabler, Edwin.  The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860-1900<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giddings, T.H.  \u201cRushing the Transatlantic News in the 1830s and 1840s.\u201d New York Historical Society Quarterly<\/em> 42 (January 1958): 47-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon, John Steele.  Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable<\/em>.  New York: Walker & Co., 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headrick, Daniel R.  The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945. <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearn, Chester G.  Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hampf, M. Michaela, and Simone Mueller-Pohl, eds.  Global Communication Electric: Business, News, and Politics in the World of Telegraphy<\/em>.  Frankfurt: Campus, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hochfelder, David Paul.  “Taming the Lighting: American Telegraphy as a Revolutionary Technology, 1832-1860.”  PhD dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hochfelder, David. \u201cConstructing an Industrial Divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876-1971.\u201d Business History Review<\/em> 76:4 (2002): 706-732.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hochfelder, David.  The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920<\/em>.   Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honsowetz, Aaron Michael. \u201cThe 1866 Post Roads Act: Federal Preemption and Deregulation of the United States Telegraph Industry.\u201d PhD dissertation, George Mason University, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jepsen, Thomas C.  \u201cThe Telegraph Comes to Colorado: A New Technology and Its Consequences.\u201d  Essays and Monographs in Colorado History<\/em> 7:3 (1987): 1-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jepsen, Thomas.  \u201cA New Business in the World: The Telegraph, Privacy, and the US Constitution in the Nineteenth Century.\u201d  Technology and Culture<\/em> 59:1 (January 2018): 95-125.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jepson, Thomas C. My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950.<\/em> Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathke, Torsten.  Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854-1920<\/em>.  Transcript Verlag, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kielbowicz, Richard B.  \u201cThe Telegraph, Bandwidth, and the News Story.\u201d Information & Culture<\/em> 57:3 (2022): 307-331.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kilmer, Paulette D. \u201cA Wake-up Call for Zombies: The Telegraph as Wayward Spark.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 17, no. 4 (2000): 93\u201394.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyons, Jeffrey K.  \u201cThe Pacific Cable, Hawai\u2019i, and Global Communication.\u201d  Hawaiian Journal of History<\/em> 39 (2005): 35\u201352.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mueller, Simone M.  Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M\u00fcller, Simone M. \u201cGazing at the Great Chicago Fire from Across the Atlantic: Submarine Telegraphy, Media Events, and a Transatlantic Audience.\u201d Monde(s)<\/em>16, no. 2 (2019): 67\u201387.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nahlbach, Alex.  “Poisoned at the Source?  Telegraphic News Services and Big Business in the Nineteenth Century.”  Business History Review<\/em> 77 (Winter 2003): 577-610.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nickles, David Paul.  Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy.  <\/em>Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonnenmacker, Thomas.  “State Promotion and Regulation of the Telegraph Industry, 1845-1860.”  Journal of Economic History<\/em> 61 (March 2001): 19-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parsons, Frank.  The Telegraph Monopoly<\/em>.  Philadelphia: C.F. Taylor, 1899.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phalen, William J.  How the Telegraph Changed the World<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plum, William Rattle.  The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States<\/em>.  2 vols.  New York: Arno, 1974.  reprint edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Risley, Ford. \u201cNewspapers and Timeliness: The Impact of the Telegraph and the Internet.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 17, no. 4 (2000): 97\u2013103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russell, Edmund. \u201cCapitalism Matters: How Financial and Technological Innovations Shaped U.S. Telegraphs, 1845-1860.\u201d Technology and Culture<\/em> 63:1 (January 2022): 31-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russell, Edmund, and Lauren Winkler.  \u201cAnimating History: Digitally Mapping the United States Telegraph System.\u201d Technology and Culture<\/em> 64:4 (October 2023): 1211-1225.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scharlott, Bradford W.  “The Influence of the Telegraph on Wisconsin Newspaper Growth.”  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 66 (Autumn 1989): 710-715.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scharlott, Bradford W., and Mary Carmen Cupito. \u201cProto-Broadcasting in Cincinnati, 1847\u20131875: The Flow of Telegraph News to Merchants and the Press.\u201d  Ohio Valley History<\/em> 7 (Spring 2007): 32\u201346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schreiner, George Abel. Cables and Wireless, and Their Role in the Foreign Relations of the United States<\/em>. Boston: Stratford, 1924.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schwoch, James.  Wired Into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Segrave, Kerry.  Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance in America, 1862\u20131920<\/em>. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staiti, Paul J.  Samuel F.B. Morse<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standage, Tom.\u00a0\u00a0The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s Online Pioneers<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Walker & Co., 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Telegraph in America.\u201d\u00a0The Illustrated Magazine of Art<\/em>\u00a01, no. 6 (1853): 354\u2013358.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson, Robert Luther.  Wiring a Continent:  The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States<\/em>.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vail, Alfred, and J. Cummings Vail.  Eyewitness to Early American Telgraphy<\/em>.  New York: Arno Press, 1974.  (reprint of 1845 and 1914 publications)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wang, Tianyi. \u201cThe Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation.\u201d Journal of Economic History<\/em> 85, no. 1 (2025): 1\u201332.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wenzlhuemer, Roland.  Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wenzlhuemer, Roland.  \u201cThe Telegraph and the Control of Material Movements: A Micro-Study About the Detachment of Communication from Transport.\u201d Technology and Culture<\/em> 58:3 (July 2017): 625-649.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wheeler, Tom.  Mr. Lincoln\u2019s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War<\/em>.  New York: Harper Collins, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolff, Joshua D.  Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yandell, Kay. Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America\u2019s Nineteenth- Century Virtual Realm<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zorrow, William Frank. \u201cJeptha H. Wade in California: Beginning the Transcontinental Telegraph.\u201d California Historical Society Quarterly<\/em> 29:4 (December 1950): 345-356.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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