'The Talk of the Town' explores everyday communication in a 16th-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information across and within e

This study argues that in eighteenth-century Britain, the public sphere was a figure of speech created by juxtaposed images of more limited, local, and particul

As the sleepy courthouse town of Alexandria, Louisiana, began to recover from the devastation and trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Daily Town Tal