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Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society

This collection of amateur, often youth-oriented periodicals from 19th-century America provided entertainment and reflected the political and social issues facing young people in that century.

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Amateur newspapers occupy an unusual place in the history of journalism as periodicals created to afford pleasure to their readers as well as to their editors and publishers. Throughout the history of the genre, most but not all amateur journalists have been juveniles.

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Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society

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Essay: The Emancipation of Boyhood Postbellum Teenage Subculture and the Amateur Press

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Sourced from Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society a unique digital primary source collection supporting the study of youth culture in the 19th century.
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