Sensationalism

Preface David B. Sachsman Acknowledgments David B. Sachsman Introduction David W. Bulla and David B. Sachsman I The Many Faces of Sensationalism 1 Yellow Journalism: Why So Maligned and Misunderstood? W. Joseph Campbell 2 Alarming Intelligence: Sensationalism in Newspapers after the Raids at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and St. Albans, Vermont Brian Gabrial 3 What H. G. Knows About . . .: Cartoonist Thomas Nast's 1872 Crusade against Presidential Candidate Horace Greeley Jennifer E. Moore, William E. Huntzicker, and Hazel Dicken-Garcia 4 Publishing Violence as Art and News: Sensational Prints and Pictures in the 19th-Century Press Gregory A. Borchard, Stephen Bates, and Lawrence J. Mullen 5 Sensational Journalism in the Mid-19th Century David W. Bulla and Heather R. Haley II Mudslinging, Muckraking, Scandals, and Yellow Journalism 6 Despicable Journalism: Sensationalism and the American Presidency in the 19th Century Crompton Burton 7 Naughty Seeds of Sensationalism: Gossip and Celebrity in 19th-Century Reporting Jack Breslin 8 Ours Has Been No Pleasing Task: Sensationalism in Frank Leslie's Campaign against Swill Milk Jennifer E. Moore 9 Anglophobia as Art: Free Trade and Protection in Grover Cleveland Political Cartoons Harlen Makemson 10 Cuba's Hot Little Rebel and Spain's Criminal Fugitive: The Prison Escape of Evangelina Cisneros in 1897 Carol Wilcox 11 Inheritors of a Sentimental Mantle: The 19th-Century Roots of Progressive Era Muckraking Jessica Dorman III Murder, Mayhem, Stunts, Hoaxes, and Disasters 12 Still Another Horror!: Religion and Death in 19th-Century American Newspapers Les Sillars 13 Sex, Sin, and Sensation: Two Major Crime Stories in Antebellum New York William E. Huntzicker 14 In Defense of Vespertilio-homo: Finding the Truth in the 1835 Moon Hoax James Eric Black 15 Pushing the Boundaries of Propriety: The Rise of the Penny Press, Flash Papers, and Illustrated Newspapers William E. Huntzicker 16 New York Times Accident Stories: Sensational Coverage Warns of Consequences Paulette D. Kilmer 17 Nellie Bly: Flying in the Face of Tradition Dianne Bragg 18 19th-Century Ship Captains in Reality and Mythos: The Role of Disaster Stories in Defining Seafaring Heroes Paulette D. Kilmer IV Hatred 19 The Making of a Scoundrel: Brigham Young and the Sensationalist Press, 1855-1860 Katrina J. Quinn 20 Marches, Massacres, and Mayhem in the Civil War Period: Did Sensational News Always Lead to Sensationalized Reporting? Debra Reddin van Tuyll 21 Lawless Louisiana: New Orleans Newspapers, Race, and the Battle of Liberty Place Nancy McKenzie Dupont About the Editors List of Contributors Index