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The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987

Author : Harold A. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608060941

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The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987

Author : Harold A. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014288479

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The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987

Author : Harold A. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4971105

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Journalism and the American Experience

Author : Bruce J. Evensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351336246

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Journalism and the American Experience by Bruce J. Evensen Pdf

Journalism and the American Experience offers a comprehensive examination of the critical role journalism has played in the struggle over America’s democratic institutions and culture. Journalism is central to the story of the nation’s founding and has continued to influence and shape debates over public policy, American exceptionalism, and the meaning and significance of the United States in world history. Placed at the intersection of American Studies and Communications scholarship, this book provides an essential introduction to journalism’s curious and conflicted co-existence with the American democratic experiment.

A Press Divided

Author : David B. Sachsman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412855150

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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.

The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison

Author : Elizabeth Atwood
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682475300

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The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison by Elizabeth Atwood Pdf

In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E. Harrison, a thirty-nine-year-old Baltimore socialite, wrote to the head of the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) asking for a job. The director asked for clarification. Did she mean a clerical position? No, she told him. She wanted to be a spy. Harrison, a member of a prominent Baltimore family, usually got her way. She had founded a school for sick children and wangled her way onto the staff of the Baltimore Sun. Fluent in four languages and knowledgeable of Europe, she was confident she could gather information for the U.S. government. The MID director agreed to hire her, and Marguerite Harrison became America’s first female foreign intelligence officer. For the next seven years, she traveled to the world’s most dangerous places—Berlin, Moscow, Siberia, and the Middle East—posing as a writer and filmmaker in order to spy for the U.S. Army and U.S. Department of State. With linguistic skills and knack for subterfuge, Harrison infiltrated Communist networks, foiled a German coup, located American prisoners in Russia, and probably helped American oil companies seeking entry into the Middle East. Along the way, she saved the life of King Kong creator Merian C. Cooper, twice survived imprisonment in Russia, and launched a women’s explorer society whose members included Amelia Earhart and Margaret Mead. As incredible as her life was, Harrison has never been the subject of a published book-length biography. Past articles and chapters about her life relied heavily on her autobiography published in 1935, which omitted and distorted key aspects of her espionage career. Elizabeth Atwood draws on newly discovered documents in the U.S. National Archives, as well as Harrison’s prison files in the archives of the Russian Federal Security Bureau in Moscow, Russia. Although Harrison portrayed herself as a writer who temporarily worked as a spy, this book documents that Harrison’s espionage career was much more extensive and important than she revealed. She was one of America’s most trusted agents in Germany, Russia and the Middle East after World War I when the United States sought to become a world power.

Birthright Citizens

Author : Martha S. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107150348

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Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.

Baltimore Sports

Author : Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610755917

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To read a sample chapter, visit www.uapress.com. Baltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the incomparable Babe Ruth, and the gold medalist Michael Phelps. It’s a one-of-a-kind town with singular stories, well-publicized challenges, and also a rich sporting history. Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City chronicles the many ways that sports are an integral part of Baltimore’s history and identity and part of what makes the city unique, interesting, and, for some people, loveable. Wide ranging and eclectic, the essays included here cover not only the Orioles and the Ravens, but also lesser-known Baltimore athletes and teams. Toots Barger, known as the “Queen of the Duckpins,” makes an appearance. So do the Dunbar Poets, considered by some to be the greatest high-school basketball team ever. Bringing together the work of both historians and journalists, including Michael Olesker, former Baltimore Sun columnist, and Rafael Alvarez, who was named Baltimore’s Best Writer by Baltimore Magazine in 2014, Baltimore Sports illuminates Charm City through this fascinating exploration of its teams, fans, and athletes.

Mencken

Author : Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195331295

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Mencken by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers Pdf

A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive biography of Mencken, the finest book ever published about this giant of American letters. Rodgers illuminates both the public and the private man, covering the many love affairs, his happy marriage at the age of 50 to Sara Haardt, and his complicated but stimulating friendship with the famed theater critic George Jean Nathan. Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of the book is Mencken. When few dared to shatter complacencies, Mencken fought for civil liberties and free speech, playing a prominent role in the Scope's Monkey Trial, battling against press censorship, and exposing pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. Drawing on research in more than sixty archives including private collections in the United States and in Germany, previously unseen, on exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends, and on his love letters and FBI files, here is the full portrait of one of America's most colorful and influential men. This biography, the best ever on the sage of Baltimore, is exhaustive but never exhausting, and offers readers more than moderate intelligence and an awfully good time. --Martin Nolan, Boston Globe

The Papers of Andrew Johnson

Author : Andrew Johnson,Paul H. Bergeron
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870499467

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The Papers of Andrew Johnson by Andrew Johnson,Paul H. Bergeron Pdf

The correspondence in this volume is related to Johnson's presidency during the Reconstruction Era, including the president's impeachment and the subsequent trial, which resulted in the Senate narrowly voting not to remove him from office.

Journeymen for Jesus

Author : William R. Sutton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271044128

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When industrialization swept through American society in the nineteenth century, it brought with it turmoil for skilled artisans. Changes in technology and work offered unprecedented opportunity for some, but the deskilling of craft and the rise of factory work meant dislocation for others. Journeymen for Jesus explores how the artisan community in one city, Baltimore, responded to these life-changing developments during the years of the early republic. Baltimore in the Jacksonian years (1820s and 1830s) was America's third largest city. Its unions rivaled those of New York and Philadelphia in organization and militancy, and it was also a stronghold of evangelical Methodism. These circumstances created a powerful mix at a time when workers were confronting the negative effects of industrialism. Many of them found within Methodism and its populist spirituality an empowering force that inspired their refusal to accept dependency and second-class citizenship. Historians often portray evangelical Protestantism as either a top-down means of social control or as a bottom-up process that created passive workers. Sutton, however, reveals a populist evangelicalism that undergirded the producer tradition dominant among those supportive of trade union goals. Producers were not socialists or social democrats, but they were anticapitalist and reform-minded. In populist evangelicalism they discovered a potent language and ethic for their discontent. Journeymen for Jesus presents a rich and unromanticized portrait of artisan culture in early America. In the process, it adds to our understanding of the class tensions present in Jacksonian America.

The Editorial Art of Edmund Duffy

Author : Stanley L. Harrison,Edmund Duffy
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0838637663

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The Editorial Art of Edmund Duffy by Stanley L. Harrison,Edmund Duffy Pdf

Edmund Duffy (1899-1962) was awarded three Pulitzer prizes for editorial cartooning and his career spanned five of the most tumultuous decades in American history. His early work appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the worker-owned New York Leader. Beginning in 1924 and for the next quarter-century. Duffy was cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun, one of America's finest newspapers, where he won Pulitzers in 1931, 1934, and 1940. This collection of more than 250 Duffy cartoons provides an overview of Duffy's career with commentary on the people and events he drew.

The Companion to Southern Literature

Author : Joseph M. Flora,Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0807126926

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The Companion to Southern Literature by Joseph M. Flora,Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan Pdf

Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Selected as an Outstanding Reference Source by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association There are many anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, The Companion to Southern Literature treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian era to the present, referencing specific works of all periods and genres. Top scholars in their fields offer original definitions and examples of the concepts they know best, identifying the themes, burning issues, historical personalities, beloved icons, and common or uncommon stereotypes that have shaped the most significant regional literature in memory. Read the copious offerings straight through in alphabetical order (Ancestor Worship, Blue-Collar Literature, Caves) or skip randomly at whim (Guilt, The Grotesque, William Jefferson Clinton). Whatever approach you take, The Companion’s authority, scope, and variety in tone and interpretation will prove a boon and a delight. Explored here are literary embodiments of the Old South, New South, Solid South, Savage South, Lazy South, and “Sahara of the Bozart.” As up-to-date as grit lit, K Mart fiction, and postmodernism, and as old-fashioned as Puritanism, mules, and the tall tale, these five hundred entries span a reach from Lady to Lesbian Literature. The volume includes an overview of every southern state’s belletristic heritage while making it clear that the southern mind extends beyond geographical boundaries to form an essential component of the American psyche. The South’s lavishly rich literature provides the best means of understanding the region’s deepest nature, and The Companion to Southern Literature will be an invaluable tool for those who take on that exciting challenge. Description of Contents 500 lively, succinct articles on topics ranging from Abolition to Yoknapatawpha 250 contributors, including scholars, writers, and poets 2 tables of contents — alphabetical and subject — and a complete index A separate bibliography for most entries

Spreading the Word

Author : Richard Thomas Stillson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803243255

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A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.

Diary of H. L. Mencken

Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307808868

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Diary of H. L. Mencken by H.L. Mencken Pdf

H. L. Mencken's diary was, at his own request, kept sealed in the vaults of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library for a quarter of a century after his death. The diary covers the years 1930 -- 1948, and provides a vivid, unvarnished, sometimes shocking picture of Mencken himself, his world, and his friends and antagonists, from Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and William Faulkner to Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom Mencken nourished a hatred that resulted in spectacular and celebrated feats of invective. From the more than 2,000 pages of typescript that have now come to light, the Mencken scholar Charles A. Fecher has made a generous selection of entries carefully chosen to preserve the whole range, color, and impact of the diary. Here, full scale, is Mencken the unique observer and disturber of American society. And here too is Mencken the human being of wildly contradictory impulses: the skeptic who was prey to small superstitions, the dare-all warrior who was a hopeless hypochondriac, the loving husband and generous friend who was, alas, a bigot. Mencken emerges from these pages unretouched -- in all the often outrageous gadfly vitality that made him, at his brilliant best, so important to the intellectual fabric of American life