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Words at war : the Civil War and American journalism

Title
Words at war : the Civil War and American journalism / edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris Jr.
Publication
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Sachsman, David B.
  • Rushing, S. Kittrell.
  • Morris, Roy.
Description
xiv, 412 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Southern vs. Northern news: a case study of historical agenda-setting, 1820-1860 / Donald Shaw, Randall Patnode, and Diana Knott Martinelli -- Dueling editors: the nullification plot of 1832 / Patricia McNeely -- Virginia and Andrew Jackson's proclamation: the emergence of an opposition party / Douglas W. Cupples -- Lewis Tappan and the friends of Amistad: the crusade to save the abolition movement / Bernell E. Tripp -- William Cullen Bryant's 30-year crusade against slavery / Gregg MacDonald -- The failure of a moderate Southern voice: Andrew Jackson Donelson's tenure as editor of the Washington Union / Mark Cheathem -- Murder and mayhem: violence, press coverage, and the mobilization of the Republican party in 1856 / Katherine A. Pierce -- Tales in black and white: the two faces of 19th-century abolitionist James Redpath / Bernell E. Tripp -- "The hay stack excitement": moral panic and hysterical press after John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry / Brian Gabrial -- North Carolina newspapers and secession / T. Harrell Allen -- Knights of the Quill: a brief history of the Confederate Press / Debra Reddin van Tuyll -- Wartime news over Southern wires: the Confederate Press Association / Ford Risley -- The press under pressure: Georgia newspapers and the Civil War / Calvin M. Logue et al. -- "Another copperhead lie": Marcellus Emery and the Bangor Union and Democrat / Crompton Burton -- The arrest and trial of Clement L. Vallandigham in 1863 / Giovanna Dell'Orto -- Civil War spin: the bogus proclamation of 1864 Menahem Blondheim -- Journalism in Civil War Indiana: the party press and free expression / David W. Bulla -- Damning voices: the press, the politicians, and the Mankato Indian Trials of 1862 / Brian Gabrial -- African Americans and the Civil War as reflected in the Christian Recorder. 1861-1862 / Hazel Dicken-Garcia and Linus Abraham -- Independent or compromised? Civil War correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader / William E. Huntzicker -- Abraham Lincoln's relationship with James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley during the Civil War / Gene Murray -- "No turning back": the official bulletins of secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton / Crompton Burton -- "O the sad, sad sights I see": Walt Whitman's Civil War journal / Roy Morris Jr. -- Taking no right for granted: the Southern Press and the 15th Amendment / Gregory Borchard -- "What can we say of such a hero?" Nathan Bedford Forrest and the press / Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill -- Partners in crime: Southern newspaper editors and the Ku Klux Klan / G. Michael Bush -- An irresponsible press: Memphis newspapers and the 1866 riot / Marius Carriere -- Race, reconciliation, and historical memory in American newspapers during the Centennial year / Robert Rabe -- God of wrath, god of peace: popular religion, popular press, and the meaning of the Civil War during reconstruction / Edward J. Blum -- "Draw him up, boys": a historical review of lynching coverage in select Virginia newspapers, 1880-1900 / James E. Hall.
Call Number
IK 09-4314
ISBN
  • 9781557534941 (pbk.)
  • 1557534942 (pbk.)
  • 9781557534903
  • 155753490X
LCCN
2008012608
OCLC
213480230
Title
Words at war : the Civil War and American journalism / edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris Jr.
Imprint
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Sachsman, David B.
Rushing, S. Kittrell.
Morris, Roy.
Research Call Number
IK 09-4314
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