| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 584 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / David B. Sachsman -- Setting the Agenda for Secession and War -- Western Maryland Newspapers, 1820-1860: American Culture in Transition / Yvonne Carignan -- Consensus and Public Debate: The Washington Press During the Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833 / Steven G. Saltzgiver -- Mississippi Newspapers and the Secession Convention: The Influence on Anti-Secessionist Porter Jacob Myers / Nancy McKenzie Dupont -- "John Brown Still Lives!": The Case of John Brown / Bernell E. Tripp -- Censorship, Racism and the Antebellum Press: Harper's Weekly Reports Harper's Ferry / Robert C. Kennedy -- Abolitionism at the Crossroads: Lydia Maria Child and the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1841-1843 / Leonard Ray Teel -- "I hear nothing about me now but politics -- slavery, and antislavery ad nauseam.": Paul Hamilton Hayne and the Editorial Policy of Russell's Magazine, 1857-1860 / J. Michael Robertson, Alton Loftis -- The Lion's Roar: Cassius Clay's The True American / Gene Murray -- Preserving a Denomination: The Promotion of Women by North Carolina's Antebellum Baptist Press / David A. Copeland -- Mississippi's Fire-Eating Editor Ethelbert Barksdale and the Election of 1860 / Nancy McKenzie Dupont -- Agenda-Setting in Antebellum East Tennessee / S. Kittrell Rushing -- Between Tradition and Innovation: The Nature of Antebellum News in the Courant / Robert Dardenne -- In Time of War -- Edwin M. Stanton, the Inverted Pyramid, and Information Control / David Mindich |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Press and politics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY.
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Journalism
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Journalists
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Press and politics
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Press coverage
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Press coverage
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Journalists.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140244
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sachsman, David B
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Rushing, S. Kittrell
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Van Tuyll, Debra Reddin
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| ISBN |
0585343810 |
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9780585343815 |
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