Buies Creek, N.C.- Campbell Communication Studies Professor Dr. Michael Ray Smith was at Campbell’s Barnes & Noble Book Store on Friday, April 29, to sign copies of his new book “Free Press in Freehand: The Spirit of American Blogging in the Handwritten Newspapers of John McLean Harrington, 1858-1869.” The book is based on Smith’s research on the 19th century Harnett County journalist who published 277 issues of handwritten newspapers during the build-up and conduct of the Civil War.
Campbell Professor Michael Smith signs copies of his new book