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American Tract Society
A major force in nineteenth-century American religious publishing, this evangelical organization helped spread Christian pamphlets, books, and periodicals across the United States. Its story opens a window onto how print shaped faith, reform, and everyday reading.
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Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom
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Select Temperance Tracts
by American Tract Society
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Founded in New York City on May 11, 1825, the American Tract Society was created to publish and distribute short works of Christian literature. Though it described itself as nonsectarian, it worked from a broadly evangelical Protestant outlook and became one of the best-known religious publishing societies in the United States.
During the nineteenth century, the society expanded far beyond simple pamphlets. It issued books and magazines, supported colporteurs who carried religious reading into towns and rural communities, and built a large publishing presence that reflected the era's faith in print as a tool for moral and spiritual influence.
The society is also remembered through the American Tract Society Building at 150 Nassau Street in Manhattan, a landmark tied to its publishing history. For readers today, the organization offers a glimpse into the world of early American reform, mass printing, and the reach of religious literature.