Collecting the Globe: The Salem East India Marine Society Museum

Abstract

newspapers. Employing digitized New Hampshire newspapers available through NewsBank, Lafferty explores such topics as the origin of news items, the subject matter and tenor of articles, and the speed of news transmission. A fuller description of his quantitative methodology would have been helpful. The relationship between New Hampshire newspapers and political parties also needs further explanation. To what extent were these papers extensions of political parties and did parties or their leaders support the state’s press financially? Inclusion of a bibliography and a more substantial index would have made Lafferty’s research more accessible to other scholars. Despite these minor concerns, American Intelligence enhances our understanding of late eighteenth-century newspapers and the transmission of information in a sparsely-populated area of the United States.