David Paul Nord

Bloomington, IN
United States

Elected to AAS

October 1992

Fellowships

1986-87: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Project: Journalism and Cities in American History
1996-97: Stephen Botein Fellowship
Project: The Religious Roots of Mass Media in America, 1800-1860
2008-09: Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Project: Newspapers and Cities in Early America

Books Based on Fellowship Research

Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America

Oxford University Press, 2004

Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers

University of Illinois Press, 2001

Public Programs

Pestilence and Print in Early America

September 17, 2020

Watch on YouTube

The Newspaper and the Culture of Print in the Early American Republic

June 18, 2008

Free Grace, Free Books, Free Riders: The Economics of Religious Publishing in Early Nineteenth-Century America

October 15, 1996