Postal Service
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Ellis, Ryan. “Disinfecting the Mail: Disease, Panic, and the Post Office Department in Nineteenth-Century America.” Information & Culture 52:4 (2017): 436-461.
Foley, Michael S. “A Mission Unfulfilled: The Post Office and the Distribution of Information in Rural New England, 1821-1835.” Journal of the Early Republic 17:4 (Winter 1997): 611-650.
Fowler, Dorothy. Unmailable: Congress and the Post Office. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1977.
Fuller, Wayne E. “The South and the Rural Free Delivery of Mail.” Journal of Southern History 25:4 (November 1959): 499-521.
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Kielbowicz, Richard B. “Postal Subsidies for the Press and the Business of Mass Culture, 1880-1920.” Business History Review 64:3 (Autumn 1990): 451-488.
Rohrer, James R. “Sunday Mail and the Church-State Theory in Jacksonian America.” Journal of the Early Republic 7 (Spring 1987): 53-74.
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Stewart, Robert K. “The Exchange System and the Development of American Politics in the 1820s.” American Journalism 4 (1987): 30-42.
Van der Linden, F. Robert. Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002.
Verhoeven, Tim. “The Case for Sunday Mails: Sabbath Laws and the Separation of Church and State in Jacksonian America.” Journal of Church and State 55 (Winter 2013): 71–91.
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