Related Library of Congress Exhibitions

• Library of Congress Bible Collection
• Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words
• Creating the United States
• Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
• Mapping a New Nation: Abel Buell’s Map of the United States, 1784

For Educators

• Lesson Plan: Evolution of the Book
• Lesson Plan: Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life
• Lesson Plan: Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View
• Resource: Ritual and Worship [The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America]
• Resource: Publishing the Declaration of Independence
• Teaching with the Library of Congress Blog Post: Continental Currency
• Timeline: Colonial Settlement, 1600s–1763
• Timeline: The American Revolution, 1763–1783
• Timeline: Songs of America, 1759–1799

Read More About It

• Amory, Hugh, and David Hall, eds. The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina in Association with the American Antiquarian Society, 2007.
• Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. Hanover, NH: Published for Dartmouth College by UP of New England, 1989.
• Cohen, Lara Langer and Jordan Alexander Stein, eds. Early African American Print Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
• Hudak, Leona M. Early American Women Printers and Publishers, 1639–1820. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1978.
• Joyce, William Leonard. Printing and Society in Early America. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1983.
• McMurtrie, Douglas C. A History of Printing in the United States. Vol. II.New York: Burt Franklin, 1969.
• Nichols, Charles L. Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Writer and Collector. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971.
• Oswald, John Clyde. Printing in the Americas. New York: Gregg Publishing, 1937.
• Pasley, Jeffrey L. “The Tyranny of Printers”: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002.
• Tebbel, John William. A History of Book Publishing in the United States. Vol I. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1972.
• Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America. Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Originally published 1810.
• Winterich, John T. Early American Books & Printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935.

For Young Readers

• Adler, David A. B. Franklin, Printer.New York: Holiday House, 2001.
• Fisher, Leonard Everett. The Printers. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2000.
• Hiller, Sandra J. The Life of a Colonial Printer. New York: PowerKids Press, 2014.
• Jarrow, Gail. The Printer’s Trial: The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, 2006.
• Krensky, Stephen. The Printer’s Apprentice. New York: Yearling, 1996.
• Petersen, Christine. The Printer. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2011.