"Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America" explores the evolution of postal innovations that sparked a communication revolution in nineteenth-century America. Wayne E. Fuller examines how evangelical Protestants, the nation's dominant religious group, struggled against those transformations in American society that they believed threatened to paganize the Christian nation they were determined to save. Drawing on House and Senate documents, postmasters general reports, and the Congressional Record, as well as sermons, speeches, and articles from numerous religious and secular periodicals, Fuller illuminates the problems the changed postal system posed for evangelicals, from Sunday mail delivery and Sunday newspapers to an avalanche of unseemly material brought into American homes via improved mail service and reduced postage prices. Along the way, Fuller offers new perspectives on the church and state controversy in the United States as well as on publishing, politics, birth control, the lottery, censorship, Congress's postal power, and the waning of evangelical Protestant influence.
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On the first day of every week in the early winter months of 1810 an almost eerie stillness lay upon towns and villages along the great post roads from Maine to Georgia and from the nation's capital to Tennessee. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pound postage rate, unmailable matter, postal innovations, cheap postage rate, evangelical moral majority, postal power, antiobscenity laws, post office committee, mailing obscene literature, new post roads, impure literature, lottery letters, lottery material, private letter boxes, postal deficit, postmasters general reports, opening post offices, word fraudulent, closing post offices, lottery advertising, postal policy, mail controversy, postage laws, gift concerts, obscene letters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Congressional Record, Case Files, Anthony Comstock, Christian Union, United States Statutes, Union Signal, Civil War, New England, New Orleans, Annals of Congress, Congressional Globe, The Outlook, Supreme Court, National Reform Association, Chicago Tribune, House of Representatives, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson, National Liberal League, New Haven, Spreading the News, Cupid's Yokes, Gilded Age, Victorian America New!
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On the first day of every week in the early winter months of 1810 an almost eerie stillness lay upon towns and villages along the great post roads from Maine to Georgia and from the nation's capital to Tennessee. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pound postage rate, unmailable matter, postal innovations, cheap postage rate, evangelical moral majority, postal power, antiobscenity laws, post office committee, mailing obscene literature, new post roads, impure literature, lottery letters, lottery material, private letter boxes, postal deficit, postmasters general reports, opening post offices, word fraudulent, closing post offices, lottery advertising, postal policy, mail controversy, postage laws, gift concerts, obscene letters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Congressional Record, Case Files, Anthony Comstock, Christian Union, United States Statutes, Union Signal, Civil War, New England, New Orleans, Annals of Congress, Congressional Globe, The Outlook, Supreme Court, National Reform Association, Chicago Tribune, House of Representatives, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson, National Liberal League, New Haven, Spreading the News, Cupid's Yokes, Gilded Age, Victorian America New!
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- Traps for the Young (John Harvard Library) by Anthony Comstock on 7 pages
- The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian America by Hal D. Sears on 4 pages
- The Smut Peddlers by James Jackson Kilpatrick on page 248, page 250, and page 251
- The Dime Novel Detective by Gary Hoppenstand on page 143, and page 144
- Primers for prudery;: Sexual advice to Victorian America, (A Spectrum book) by Ronald G Walters on page 144, and page 188
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