Donna L. Dickerson

The Reconstruction Era

Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877
Herausgeber: Copeland, David A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As the sole purveyors of news and opinion, Reconstruction-era newspapers bent and spindled American public opinion with little regard for independent journalism and great regard for party politics. In other words, the newspapers of the Reconstruction era served political rather than social needs. The issues facing the nation were momentous, and opinions on how to deal with the problems were vigorously presented and defended. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country's print media, this book reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion from 1865 to 1877. Issues such as civil rights, constitutional amendments, a presidential impeachment, Indian wars, immigration, and political corruption dominated the newspapers and gave journalists opportunities to advance their agendas. Each of the 30 chapters of this book introduces an event or issue and includes news articles representing opposing sides of the issue as it affected Americans. Readers can use the introductory essays and primary source documents to understand how newspapers and magazines presented vital events and issues to Americans of the day. This invaluable reference source presents hard-to-find opinions in the words of those who wrote them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9780313320941
• ISBN-10: 0313320942
• Artikelnr.: 22019549

Autorenporträt

Donna L. Dickerson

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Introduction: Newspapers During Reconstruction The First Year: Expressions of Hope and Concern
1865 Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction Plan
1865-1866 The Freedmen's Bureau
1865-1872 Black Codes
1865 Seating the South's Congressional Delegation
1865 President Johnson v. Radical Congress
1866 Freedmen's Bureau Act
1866 Civil Right Act of 1866 Black Suffrage: Before the Vote
1865-1866 Fourteenth Amendment
1867 New Orleans Riot
1866 Congressional Reconstruction
1867 Black Suffrage: The First Vote
1867 The Alaska Purchase
1867 Impeachment of President Johnson
1868 Creating the Carpetbagger Myth
1867-1869 The Battle for Woman Suffrage
1867-1870 Indian Policy in the West
1867-1876 Violence and the Ku Klux Klan
1867-1872 Sunday Liquor Laws
1867-1873 Mormons and Polygamy
1870-1876 Black Suffrage: The Fifteenth Amendment and Beyond
1869-1877 Chinese Immigration
1867-1872 Boss Tweed and New York Ring
1870-1873 Credit Mobilier Scandal
1872-1873 The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
1873 Civil Rights Act of 1875 The Hamburg Riot
1876 The Compromised Election of 1876 End of Reconstruction
1877