After the War: The Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900

ISBN-10
1412864631
ISBN-13
9781412864633
Series
After the War
Category
Journalism
Language
English
Published
2017
Authors
David B. Sachsman, Dea Lisica

Description

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

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