The Handwritten Newspapers Project

Books & Articles on Handwritten Newspapers

[Updated January 5, 2022]

Books

1. Michael Ray Smith, Free Press in Freehand: The Spirit of American Blogging in Handwritten Newspapers of John McLean Harrington, 1858-1869. Grand Rapids, MI: Edenridge Press, 2011
2. Heiko Droste and Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, eds., Handwritten Newspapers: An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Literature Society, 2019 (available via JSTOR open access with the link above)

Articles

1. Mary Isbell, with Teresa Navarro and Katelyn Sahagian, “Extracts of The Young Idea,” Scholarly Editing (2016, Vol. 37).
2. Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, “Crooks and Heroes, Priests and Preachers: Religion and socialism in the oral-literary tradition of a Finnish-Canadian mining community”
3. Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, “Manuscripts and Broadsheets: Narrative Genres and the Communication Circuit Among Workingclass Youth in Early 20th Century Finland,” Folklore (33), pp. 109-126
4. Roy Atwood, “Foreword” to Michael Ray Smith, A Free Press in Freehand: The Spirit of American Blogging in the Handwritten Newspapers of John McLean Harrington, 1858-1869 (Grand Rapids, MI: Edenridge Press, 2011), pp. xiii-xv
5. Roy Atwood, “Handwritten Newspapers,” History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Margaret A. Blanchard. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, pp. 249-250
6. Roy Atwood, “Shipboard News: Nineteenth Century Handwritten Periodicals at Sea,” Annual Convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, Chicago, IL, August 1997
7. Roy Atwood, “Handwritten Newspapers of the Canadian-American West, 1842-1910,” Annual Convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), History Division, Kansas City, MO, August 1993 (Faculty Research Award Recipient, AEJMC History Division)
8. Roy Atwood, “Captive Audiences: Handwritten Prisoner-of-War Newspapers of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition and the War Between the States,” Annual Convention of the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA), Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 1993
9. Roy Atwood, “The Handwriting on the Wall: Frontier Journalism as Cultural Form,” Annual Convention of the American Journalism Historians Association, Coeur d’Alene, ID, Oct. 1990
10. Roy Atwood, “The ‘Critical Mass’ for the Frontier Press: Demographics, Economics and Newspapers During Idaho’s Territorial Period,” Annual Convention of American Journalism Historians Association, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 1989
11. Roy Atwood, “Old News: Using Newspapers in Pursuit of the Past,” invited keynote address presented to the Iowa Newspaper Project Conference: Pilot Project for the National Newspaper Preservation Project, National Endowment for the Humanities, Des Moines, IA, 1984
12. Roy Atwood, “Washington, Iowa’s Manuscript Newspapers,” The Palimpsest: Iowa’s Popular History Magazine, 62 (January-February 1981), 10-13
13. Roy Atwood, “Handwritten Newspapers on the Iowa Frontier, 1844-1854,” Journalism History, 7 (Summer 1980), 56-59, 66-67