Morality and the mail in nineteenth-century America
"Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America explores the evolution of the postal innovation that sparked a communication revolution. Wayne E. Fuller examines how evangelical Protestants, the nation's dominant religious group, struggled against the transformations in American society wrought by the postal revolution, transformations that they believed threatened to paganize the Christian nation they were determined to save."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill., ©2003
History
xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780252028120, 0252028120
50204124
Mail on the Sabbath
Sabbath mail and the separation of church and state
Changing the Sabbath to a day of rest
Sunday newspapers and the day of rest
The post office, the pornography in the gilded age
The attack upon impure literature in the mail
The post office, and the paperback controversy
For the preservation of the American family
The postal power, Protestants, and the lottery
Immoral mail and the enforcement of Evangelical morality