The Newspapers of Provincial America.

Examines the establishment and subsequent growth of newspapers in the British American colonies, within the context of the metropolitan papers on which they were modeled. The 1720's-30's was a period of experimentation that led to great variety, but by the 1740's American newspaper publishing had largely become standardized and mature. The multiplication of newspapers by 1740 led to a much more broadly informed public, since all of the mainland colonies were by then within reach of at least one newspaper.