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A Bibliography of Connecticut Newspaper Resources

For more information on newspaper publishing in Connecticut, the following sources may be consulted. Some may be available at or through your local public or school library.

Bibliographies of Newspapers
Brigham, Clarence Saunders. "Connecticut Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 23 (1902): 254-330 [CSL call number E 172 .A35].

_______________. History and Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820. 2 vols. Worcester, Mass. American Antiquarian Society, 1947 [CSL call number Z 6951 .B86 1847]. (Copy available for ILL.)

Gregory, Winifred, ed. American Newspapers 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada. New York: Biographical Society of America, 1937 [CSL call number GIS Ref Z 6945 .A53]. (Library Use Only.)

Gustafson, Don. A Preliminary Checklist of Connecticut Newspapers, 1795-1975. 2 vols. Hartford: Connecticut State Library, 1978 [CSL call number HistRef Conn Doc St292 chen v.1]. (Library Use Only.)

"List of Bound Newspapers in the Connecticut Historical Society," Papers and Reports Presented to the Connecticut Historical Society, 1893, pp. 30-34 [CSL call number F 91 .C65].

Ethnic Newspapers
Hutton, Frankie. The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993 [CSL call number PN 4882.5 .H87 1993].

Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr. and James W. Parins. American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984 [CSL call number PN 4883 .L57 1984].

Pride, Armistead Scott and Clint C. Wilson II. A History of the Black Press. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1997 [CCSU and ECSU call number PN 4882.5 P75 1997].

Wolseley, Roland E. The Black Press, U.S.A. Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, 1971.

General Sources
Bates, Albert C. "Fighting the Revolution with Printer's Ink in Connecticut." Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society 9 (1918): 129-60 [CSL call number 974.62 N445p].

Casey, Marcus A. "A Typographical Galaxy." Connecticut Quarterly 2 (January-March, 1896) 1: 25-42 [CSL call number F 91 .C625].

Clark, Charles Hopkins and Everett G. Hill. "Newspapers and Periodicals of Connecticut" in History of Connecticut in Monographic Form. New York: States History Co., 1925 [CSL call number F 94 .O82 1925].

Cutler, Charles L. Connecticut's Revolutionary Press. Connecticut Bicentennial Series No. 14. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1975 [CSL call number HistRef Conn Doc Am35 cb].

Hunter, Dard. Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1978, c1947 [SCSU, WCSU Call number TS 1090 .H816 1978].

Hunter, Dard. Papermaking in Pioneer America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952 [CSL call number TS 1095 .U6 H8 1952].

Katz, Judith M. "Connecticut Newspapers and the Constitutional Convention, 1786-1788." Bulletin of the Connecticut Historical Society 30 (April, 1965) 2: 33-44 [CSL call number F 91 .C67].

Macom, Benjamin. "Connecticut Journalism in 1705." Connecticut Quarterly 2 (1896): 99 [CSL call number F 91 .C625].

Morse, Jarvis Means. Connecticut Newspapers in the Eighteenth Century. Tercentenary Publication, no. 36. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935 [CSL call number GIS Ref Conn Doc T271h].

Williams, Bill. "The Newspaper Chase." Connecticut Quarterly 42 (November 1979): 64-66, 112-15, 118-19 [CSL call number F 91 .C62].

Pioneers of Connecticut Newspapers
Bates, Albert C. "Thomas Green, 1735-1810." Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society 8 (1914): 289-309 [CSL call number 974.62 N445p].

Henry, Susan. "Work, Widowhood, and War: Hannah Bunce Watson, Connecticut Printer." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 48 (Winter, 1983) 1: 25-39 [CSL call number F 91 .C67].

Specific Newspapers
McNulty, John Bard. Older Than the Nation: The Story of the Hartford Courant. Stonington: The Pequot Press, 1964 [CSL call number PN 4899 .H35 H3].

Smith, J. Eugene. One Hundred Years of Hartford's Courant From Colonial Times Through the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949 [CSL call number PN 4899 .H35 C6].

Spaulding, E. Wilder. "The Connecticut Courant: A Representative Newspaper in the Eighteenth Century." New England Quarterly 3 (1930): 443-63 [CSL call number F 1 .N62 Mfilm].

Prepared by the History and Genealogy Unit, Connecticut State Library, November 2000.