Dissertation Information for Harold Edward Holland NAME: - Harold Edward Holland
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1976)
ADVISORS: - Phyllis Dain - Allen T. Hazen
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Susan Otis Thompson - Terry Belanger - Lowell A. Martin - Richard L. Darling - Robert M. Maloy
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE AS A REGIONAL PUBLISHING CENTER, 1830-1880
Abstract: For many years Nashville has been recognized as one of the leading publishing centers of the South. Religious periodicals, which began to appear in 1830 (possibly 1829), have played a major roel in its development. This study identifies and give the history of seventy-seven such periodicals-- based on an examination of original copies or photocopies of forty-seven and on various secondary sources for the other thirty. Periodicals were included in the study if their contents were predominantly religious or moralistic, or if they were edited by ministers, or if they were sponsored by churches or other ecclesiastical organization. They include religious newspapers, aids to the ministry, magazines for women and children, Sundy school papers, temperance journals and missions papers.
The history of these periodicals is divided into three periods. During the first period (1830-44), Cumberland Presbyterian, Methodist, Old-school Presbyterian, and Baptist editors produced thirteen periodicals- mostly on the basis of private financing with denominational approval. Several of these publications failed because of unstable editors, and the economic panic of 1837 ruined most of the others.
Suring the second period (1844-62)- a time of national prosperity and territorial expansion- ministers of the four denominations which had published in the early period were joined by the Disciples and leaders of the temperance movement in producing thirty two periodicals.
Particularly aggressive were the Southern Methodists and the Southern Baptists, who separated from their northern brethren over the slavery question in 1844 and 1845 respectively. The establishment of the South-Western Publishing House by schismatic Baptist leaders during this period and the location of the Southern Methodist Publishing House at Nashville in 1854 were key developments. The most successful and influential periodicals were the religious newspapers: the Tennessee Baptist, the Methodists' Nashville Christian Advocate, the Cumberland Presbyterian' Banner of Peace, and the Disciples' gospel Advocate. These generally carried secular news, religious doctrine and news, intra- and interdenominational controversy, and controversy with northern editors over slavery. All periodical publishing in Nashville was suspended by the Union Army's invasion of the city in February 1862.
In the third period (1865-80), four of the five denominations that were publishing, before the war resumed their activity. The most impressive were the Methodists, who had assumed an official control of their periodicals long before the war. By the 1880s the publishing program of the Southern Methodist Publishing House would be reaching a position of national prominence. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church purchased several privately-owned periodicals during this period and consolidated them at Nashville into a successful program. Several independent Baptist papers enjoyed a modest success and served as a good omen for the denominational program that would be established later in the century. The Disciples found an able voice in the Gospel Advocate, the periodical of this study with the record for longevity and one around which influential publishing business was developed.
By 1889 printing and publishing constituted in two aspects (capital investment and payroll) the leading industry of Nashville-- according to data compiled by the federal census of that year. Much of this activity centered around religious publishing-- a pattern which has persisted to this day.
An attempt has been made to relate this publishing history to contemporary economic, political, educational, and other social and cultural events and movements. Biographical notes are provided for approximately three hundred fifty editors, printers, publishers, authors, ministers, teachers and other professional leaders.
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