Fellowships 1990-91: AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term FellowshipProject: The State of Knowledge on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution 1998-99: Research AssociateProject: A Republic of Knowledge: Communications and the Rise of an Age of Reading in America, 1639-1861 Books Based on Fellowship Research Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835University of Tennessee Press, 1989 Public Programs Regional Cultures of the Book, 1783-1861June 12, 1994 AAS Proceedings Elementary Literacy on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution: Trends in Rural New England, 1760-1830. April 1982 , Volume 92, Part 1