The Antebellum Press (eBook, ePUB)

Setting the Stage for Civil War
Redaktion: Sachsman, David B.; Borchard, Gregory A.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War reveals the critical role of journalism in the years leading up to America's deadliest conflict by exploring the events that foreshadowed and, in some ways, contributed directly to the outbreak of war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429515767
• Artikelnr.: 56957796

Autorenporträt

David B. Sachsman holds the West Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs. He came to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from California State University, Fullerton, where he served as dean and professor of the School of Communications. Previously, he was chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Media at Rutgers University. Dr. Sachsman is the director of the annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. His previous works include The Civil War and the Press (2000), Sensationalism (2013), A Press Divided (2014), and After the War (Routledge, 2017). Gregory A. Borchard, a professor in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has written numerous works on journalism history, including A Narrative History of the American Press (Routledge, 2019). Together with David W. Bulla, he is the author of Lincoln Mediated (2015), and Journalism in the Civil War Era (2010). He is also the author of Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley (2011) and editor of Journalism History, a quarterly journal published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's History Division.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; Preface, David B. Sachsman; Contributors; Introduction,
Gregory A. Borchard; Chapter1 Newspapers, Agenda Setting, and a Nation
Under Stress, Donald L. Shaw and Thomas C. Terry, with Milad Minooie;
Chapter 2 The "Irrepressible Conflict" and the Press in the Late Antebellum
Period Debra Reddin van Tuyll; Part I: Nullification, Abolition, and
Division; Chapter 3 Nat Turner's Revolt Spurs Southern Fears and Sparks
Public Debate over Slavery James Scythes; Chapter 4 Disunion or Submission?
Southern Editors and the Nullification Crisis, 1830-1833 Erika
Pribanic-Smith; Chapter 5 Abolitionist Editors: Pushing the Boundaries of
Freedom's Forum David W. Bulla; Chapter 6 When the Pen Gives Way to the
Sword: Editorial Violence in the Nineteenth Century Abigail G. Mullen;
Chapter 7 An Editorial House Divided: The Texas Press Response to the
Compromise of 1850 Mary M. Cronin; Chapter 8 "The Good Old Cause": The
Fugitive Slave Law and Revolutionary Rhetoric in The Boston Daily
Commonwealth Nicole C. Livengood; Chapter 9 Franklin Pierce and the Failure
of Compromise: Newspaper Coverage of the Compromise Candidate, the
"Nebraska Act," and the Midterm Elections of 1854 Katrina J. Quinn;
Chapter 10 Abolitionism, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the End of Compromise
Dianne M. Bragg; Chapter 11 "Like so many black skeletons": The Slave Trade
through American and British Newspapers, 1808-1865 Thomas C. Terry and
Donald L. Shaw; Part II: The Election of 1856, Dred Scott, and the
Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Chapter 12 1856: A Year of Volatile Political
Reckoning Dianne M. Bragg; Chapter 13 Doughface Democrats, James Buchanan,
and Manliness in Northern Print and Political Culture Brie Swenson Arnold;
Chapter 14 "Free Men, Free Speech, Free Press, Free Territory, and Frémont"
Gregory A. Borchard; Chapter 15 Newspaper Coverage of Dred Scott Inflames a
Divided Nation William E. Huntzicker; Chapter 16 "More than a Skirmish":
Press Coverage of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates David W. Bulla; Part III: The
Election of 1860 and the Crisis of Secession; Chapter 17 The Democrats
Divide: Newspaper Coverage of the 1860 Presidential Conventions Brian
Gabrial; Chapter 18 Fanning the Flames: Extremist Rhetoric in the
Antebellum Press Phillip Lingle; Chapter 19 The Fire-Eating Charleston
Mercury: Stoking the Flames of Secession and Civil War Debra Reddin van
Tuyll; Chapter 20 "Our all is at stake": The Anti-Secession Newspapers of
Mississippi Nancy McKenzie Dupont; Chapter 21 Exchange Articles Carried by
the New York Evening Post, December 13-31, 1860 Erika Thrubis; Chapter 22
War of Words: Border State Editorials During the Secession Period Melony
Shemberger; Index