US Popular Print Culture to 1860, a remarkable collection of forty essays, demonstrates the breadth of the field of print culture studies in the United States and points toward its future potential for literary scholars, historians, and other scholars of the early and antebellum periods.
Ronald J. Zboray is Professor of Communication and Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Mary Saracino Zboray is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh.
The editors have published extensively on antebellum print culture as well as on women's politicization in that era, and they have recently taken up, through numerous essays, print culture during the American Civil War.