| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 385 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Journalism Series |
| Contents |
Introduction / David B. Sachsman -- Press, politics, and restoration. Rebel yells and idle vaporings: the lost cause rises and dissipates in the Chicago tribune, Atlanta constitution, and New York times, 1860-1914 / Thomas C. Terry and Donald I. Shaw -- The new departure: the northern democratic press and reconstruction, 1868-1876 / Erik B. Alexander -- The forgotten issue: the Little Bighorn and the election of 1876 / James E. Mueller -- Thomas Nast, Harper's weekly, and the election of 1876 / William E. Huntzicker -- The president's private life: a new explanation for "the right to privacy" / Patricia Ferrier -- "Always to be the "tocsin"": Josephus Daniels, The news & observer, and the rise of Jim Crow / Thomas C. Terry and Donald l. Shaw -- Journalism in the Gilded Age: entertaining the masses, serving the public, and raking the muck. Haunted times: ghosts in crime stories printed by the New York times, 1851-1901 / Paulette D. Kilmer -- The Rocky Mountains, Yosemite, and other natural wonders: western landscape in travel correspondence of the post-civil war press / Katrina J. Quinn -- Consuelo, the Duke, and the press: celebrity and sensationalism in the Gilded Age / Wallace B. Eberhard -- Are you going to the hanging? Georgia editors and the movement to end public hangings / Wallace B. Eberhard -- Abolishing wage slavery in the Gilded Age: John Swinton and the American labor movement's memory of the Civil War / Maryan Soliman -- Babies as breadwinners: child labor prior to federal reform in the industrial north and the industrializing south, 1890-1899 / Amber Welch -- Images of immigrants, race, and gender. Sickness from abroad: how media framing of new immigrants and disease fueled the immigration debate, 1891-1893 / Harriet Moore -- Changes in the news: characterizing immigration, 1850-1890 / Timothy l. Moran -- Riot, race, and placing blame: press coverage of the 1885 Rock Springs Chinese Massacre / Rich Shumate -- "Black fiends" and "atrocious murders": redefining "sensationalism" through coverage of interracial crime in the 19th-century press / Lee Jolliffe -- Ida B. Wells and coverage of lynchings and anti-lynching efforts in selected mainstream newspapers, 1892-1894 / Aleen J. Ratzlaff -- Custer and the "savages": newspaper coverage of the Indian War, summer 1876 / Thomas C. Terry and Donald l. Shaw -- A moral panic on the Plains' press culpability and the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee / Brian Gabrial -- Why women dared to make journalism their calling / Paulette D. Kilmer -- "They'd vote for what is pure and good?: representations of women in the Gilded Age press / Jennifer E. Moore -- The new woman as athlete: coverage of the sporting woman in the Gilded Age press / Amber Roessner |
| Summary |
"After the War presents a panoramic view of social, political, and economic change in post-Civil War America by examining its journalism, from coverage of politics and Reconstruction to sensational reporting and images of the American people. The changes in America during this time were so dramatic that they transformed the social structure of the country and the nature of journalism. By the 1870s and 1880s, new kinds of daily newspapers had developed. New Journalism eventually gave rise to Yellow Journalism, resulting in big-city newspapers that were increasingly sensationalistic, entertaining, and designed to attract everyone. The images of the nation's people as seen through journalistic eyes, from coverage of immigrants to stories about African American "Black fiends" and Native American "savages," tell a vibrant story that will engage scholars and students of history, journalism, and media studies.?"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Press -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Journalism
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Press
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sachsman, David B., editor
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Lisica, Dea, editor
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| ISBN |
9781351295062 |
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1351295063 |
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9781351295086 |
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135129508X |
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9781351295079 |
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1351295071 |
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9781351295055 |
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1351295055 |
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