1. Edwin Scott Caustad, A Religious History of America (New York: Harper & Row, 1966) p. 227.
2. James G. Moseley, A Cultural History of Religion in America (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981), pp. 63–64; David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. Strange Gods (Boston: Beacon Press, 1981), pp. 9–11; Marty, p. 106.
3. Moseley, pp. 30, 51ff, 67. See also Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), pp. 429–490.
4. Frederic Hudson, Journalism in the United States from 1690 to 1872 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873) pp. 289–305.
5. Edwin Emery and Michael Emery, The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media, 5th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984), pp. 140–146.