David A. CopelandDavid A. Copeland is A.J. Fletcher Professor, School of Communication, Elon University, Elon, NC. Professor Copeland is the editor of Greenwood's US Wars and the Media in Primary Documents and Debating Historical Issues in the Media f the Time series. He is also the author of Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (Greenwood, 2000), The Antebellum Era, and with Shannon Martin, The Function of Newspapers in Society (Praeger, 2003). Carol Sue Humphrey is Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma Baptist University. She is the author of This Popular Engine: New England Newspapers During the American Revolution, 1775-1789 (1992), The Press and the Young Republic (Greenwood, 1996), and The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800 (Greenwood, 2003). Read More Read Less