South Reports The Civil War

Author : J. Cutlery Andrews
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400872541

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South Reports the Civil War by J. Cutlery Andrews Pdf

For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was for American society. Many of the problems encountered in reporting later wars were present in the Civil War, but they were new problems then: communications, transportation, Federal confiscation of printing presses, censorship, military personalities, and, after mid-1863, how to tell a proud people that it was losing the war. Professor Andrews, author of The North Reports the Civil War (1955), now turns his attention to the South. He shows that Southern war reporting at its best was comparable in quality to that of the leading Northern war correspondents, that the reporting of news by the Southern press was an essential ingredient not simply of journalism but also of the Confederate propaganda effort, and that the South's newsmen contributed to the revolution of a profession, an industry, and a form of human communication. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : J. Cutler Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : 0691045976

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The South Reports the Civil War by J. Cutler Andrews Pdf

This text surveys the influence of Southern journalism and describes the personality of dominant correspondents. The author presents an overall review of regional newspapers followed by a leisurely history of news treatment by the Southern press of the events of the Civil War years.

Author : David B. Sachsman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351534604

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A Press Divided by David B. Sachsman Pdf

A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspapers were divided between North and South, and also divided within the North and South. These divisions reflected and exacerbated the conflicts in political thought that caused the Civil War and the political and ideological battles within the Union and the Confederacy about how to pursue the war. In the North, dissenting voices alarmed the Lincoln administration to such a degree that draconian measures were taken to suppress dissenting newspapers and editors, while in the South, the Confederate government held to its fundamental belief in freedom of speech and was more tolerant of political attacks in the press. This volume consists of eighteen chapters on subjects including newspaper coverage of the rise of Lincoln, press reports on George Armstrong Custer, Confederate women war correspondents, Civil War photojournalists, newspaper coverage of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the suppression of the dissident press. This book tells the story of a divided press before and during the Civil War, discussing the roles played by newspapers in splitting the nation, newspaper coverage of the war, and the responses by the Union and Confederate administrations to press criticism.

Author : J. Cutler Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:491275547

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The South Reports Yhe Civil War by J. Cutler Andrews Pdf

Author : David J. Eicher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0252022734

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The Civil War in Books by David J. Eicher Pdf

With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in The Civil War in Books the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as "Battles and Campaigns," "Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters," "Unit Histories," and "General Works." The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of other topics. Annotations are included for all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1/2 x 11 inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list "prolific" Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor and by title. Gary Gallagher's foreword traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. The Civil War in Books, Gallagher believes, is "precisely the type of guide" that has been needed. The first full-scale, fully-annotated bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's The Civil War in Books is a remarkable compendium of the best reading available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States. The bibliography, the most valuable reference book on the subject since The Civil War Day by Day, will be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.

Author : Ford Risley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313347283

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Civil War Journalism by Ford Risley Pdf

This book examines newspapers, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons to tell the important story of journalism, documenting its role during the Civil War as well as the impact of the war on the press. Civil War Journalism presents a unique synthesis of the journalism of both the North and South during the war. It features a compelling cast of characters, including editors Horace Greeley and John M. Daniel, correspondents George Smalley and Peter W. Alexander, photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner, and illustrators Alfred Waud and Thomas Nast. Written to appeal to those interested in the Civil War in general and in journalism specifically, as well as general readers, the work provides an introductory overview of journalism in the North and South on the eve of the Civil War. The following chapters examine reporting during the war, editorializing about the war, photographing and illustrating the war, censorship and government relations, and the impact of the war on the press.

Author : Andrew Seth Coopersmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1565847962

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Fighting Words by Andrew Seth Coopersmith Pdf

A history of Civil War newspaper reporting on all sides of the conflict shares specific perspectives as they were published at the time in dozens of period newspapers, from the Harrisburg Telegraph to the New Orleans Bee, in a volume complemented by more than one hundred facsimile reproductions. 13,000 first printing.

Author : John W. Stepp,Isaac William Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036454796

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Mirror of War by John W. Stepp,Isaac William Hill Pdf

"With this book, the editors propose to take you back to the years 1861-1865. Their intent is to enable you to live the suspense of the Civil War by having it unfold exactly as it did for newspaper readers in the nation's capital a hundred years ago. Your mirror of the past is the Evening star, the only surviving newspaper that covered the Civil War from its home front in Washington, D.C. The contents of this volume are made up of the 62 biggest stories of the Civil War period direct from the files of the Star of the 1860s. The format ... includes : a brief transitionary background to keep events in perspective; a reprint of the Star's reports on each big story ... ; illustrations from contemporary photographers, artists or engravers ... ; some views of the Washington homefront as it was reflected in the local news"--Page 1.

Author : S. Kitrell Rushing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000949346

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The Civil War and the Press by S. Kitrell Rushing Pdf

The power of the American press to influence and even set the political agenda is commonly associated with the rise of such press barons as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the century. The latter even took credit for instigating the Spanish-American War. Their power, however, had deeper roots in the journalistic culture of the nineteenth century, particularly in the social and political conflicts that climaxed with the Civil War. Until now historians have paid little attention to the role of the press in defining and disseminating the conflicting views of the North and the South in the decades leading up to the Civil War. In The Civil War and the Press historians, political scientists, and scholars of journalism measure the influence of the press, explore its diversity, and profile the prominent editors and publishers of the day. The book is divided into three sections covering the role of the press in the prewar years, throughout the conflict itself, and during the Reconstruction period. Part 1, "Setting the Agenda for Secession and War," considers the rise of the consumer society and the journalistic readership, the changing nature of editorial standards and practice, the issues of abolitionism, secession, and armed resistence as reflected in Northern and Southern newspapers, the reporting on John Brown's Harper's Ferry raid, and the influence of journalism on the 1860 election results. Part 2, "In Time of War," includes discussions of journalistic images and ideas of womanhood in the context of war, the political orientation of the Jewish press, the rise of illustrated periodicals, and issues of censorship and opposition journalism. The chapters in Part 3, "Reconstructing a Nation," detail the infiltration of the former Confederacy by hundreds of federally subsidized Republican newspapers, editorial reactions to the developing issue of voting rights for freed slaves, and the journalistic mythologization of Jesse James as a resister of Reconstruction laws and conquering Unionists. In tracing the confluence of journalism and politics from its source, this groundbreaking volume opens a wide variety of perspectives on a crucial period in American history while raising questions that remain pertainent to contemporary tensions between press power and government power. The Civil War and the Press will be essential reading for historians, media studies specialists, political scientists, and readers interested in the Civil War period.

Author : Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190900915

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How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson Pdf

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on extractive industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy, despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion. To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity. At the nation's founding, it was the Eastern "yeoman farmer" who galvanized and symbolized the American Revolution. After the Civil War, that mantle was assumed by the Western cowboy, singlehandedly defending his land against barbarians and savages as well as from a rapacious government. New states entered the Union in the late nineteenth century and western and southern leaders found yet more common ground. As resources and people streamed into the West during the New Deal and World War II, the region's influence grew. "Movement Conservatives," led by westerners Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, claimed to embody cowboy individualism and worked with Dixiecrats to embrace the ideology of the Confederacy. Richardson's searing book seizes upon the soul of the country and its ongoing struggle to provide equal opportunity to all. Debunking the myth that the Civil War released the nation from the grip of oligarchy, expunging the sins of the Founding, it reveals how and why the Old South not only survived in the West, but thrived.

Author : Historical Briefs, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896770532

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Civil War Reports by Historical Briefs, Inc. Staff Pdf

Author : Hugh Brogan
Publisher : Times Books(NY)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000424192

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The Times Reports the American Civil War by Hugh Brogan Pdf

Reports from 'The Times' during the American Civil War.

Author : Richard Barksdale Harwell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486259803

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The Confederate Reader by Richard Barksdale Harwell Pdf

This wonderful self-portrait of the Confederacy is filled with carefully chosen and annotated selection of contemporary battle reports, general orders, letters, articles, sermons, songs, travel observations, and much more. Illustrated. "...an excellent anthology, worthy of the imitations it will engender." — The New York Times.

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807152171

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Still Fighting the Civil War by David Goldfield Pdf

"This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats the Lost Cause with unblinking directness.... its main strength: the stress on the weight of memory and its enduring links to white supremacy." -- David W. Blight, Southern Cultures "Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as contemporary reporting, this deftly written historical analysis takes on a difficult topic with passion, sensitivity, and integrity." -- Publishers Weekly In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's residents and in the national news headlines of battle flags, racial injustice, and religious conflicts. Goldfield candidly discusses how and why white southern men fashioned the myths of the Lost Cause and Redemption out of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and how they shaped a religion to canonize the heroes and deify the events of those fateful years. He also recounts how groups of blacks and white women eventually crafted a different, more inclusive version of southern history and how that new vision competed with more traditional perspectives. The battle for southern history, and for the South, continues -- in museums, public spaces, books, state legislatures, and the minds of southerners. Given the region's growing economic power and political influence, understanding this struggle takes on national significance. Through an analysis of ideas of history and memory, religion, race, and gender, Still Fighting the Civil War provides us with a better understanding of the South and one another.

Author : David A. Copeland
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128360125

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The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting: The Civil War, north and south by David A. Copeland Pdf

Called the first modern war and our greatest national calamity, the nation's press conveyed news of the Civil War to the citizens North and South who looked to newspapers as their primary source of information. Circulation pressures, political partisanship, scarce materials, and the unyielding public appetite for the latest news all contributed to how the growing numbers of professional journalists covered the pressing political and military events during those crucial years.