After the War
The Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900
Published on 28. July 2017
418 pages
978-1-351-29507-9 (ISBN)
Description
After the War presents a panoramic view of social, political, and economic change in post-Civil War America by examining its journalism, from coverage of politics and Reconstruction to sensational reporting and images of the American people. The changes in America during this time were so dramatic that they transformed the social structure of the country and the nature of journalism. By the 1870s and 1880s, new kinds of daily newspapers had developed. New Journalism eventually gave rise to Yellow Journalism, resulting in big-city newspapers that were increasingly sensationalistic, entertaining, and designed to attract everyone. The images of the nation's people as seen through journalistic eyes, from coverage of immigrants to stories about African American "Black fiends" and Native American "savages," tell a vibrant story that will engage scholars and students of history, journalism, and media studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
7,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-29507-9 (9781351295079)
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David B. Sachsman holds the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he also serves as director of the annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. He is the editor of A Press Divided: Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War (2014) and Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting (2013).
Content
List of Images, Illustrations, and Tables
Preface - David B. Sachsman
Introduction - David B. Sachsman
Part I. Press, Politics, and Restoration
1 Rebel Yells and Idle Vaporings: The Lost Cause Rises and Dissipates in the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Constitution, and the New York Times, 1860-1914
Thomas C. Terry and Donald L. Shaw
2 The New Departure: The Northern Democratic Press and Reconstruction, 1868-1876
Erik B. Alexander
3 The Forgotten Issue: The Little Bighorn and the Election of 1876
James E. Mueller
4 Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, and the Election of 1876
William E. Huntzicker
5 The President's Private Life: A New Explanation for "The Right to Privacy"
Patricia Ferrier
6 "Always to be the 'Tocsin'": Josephus Daniels, the News & Observer, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Thomas C. Terry and Donald L. Shaw
Part II. Journalism in the Gilded Age: Entertaining the Masses, Serving the Public, and Raking the Muck
7 Haunted Times? Ghosts in Crime Stories Printed by the New York Times, 1851-1901
Paulette D. Kilmer
8 The Rocky Mountains, Yosemite, and Other Natural Wonders: Western Landscape in Travel Correspondence of the Post-Civil War Press
Katrina J. Quinn
9 Consuelo, the Duke, and the Press: Celebrity and Sensationalism in the Gilded Age
Wallace B. Eberhard
10 Are You Going to the Hanging? Georgia Editors and the Movement to End Public Hangings
Wallace B. Eberhard
11 Abolishing Wage Slavery in the Gilded Age: John Swinton and the American Labor Movement's
Memory of the Civil War
Maryan Soliman
12 Babies as Breadwinners: Child Labor Prior to Federal Reform in the Industrial North and the
Industrializing South, 1890-1899
Amber Welch
Part III. Images of Immigrants, Race, and Gender
13 Sickness from Abroad: How Media Framing of New Immigrants and Disease Fueled the Immigration Debate, 1891-1893
Harriet Moore
14 Changes in the News: Characterizing Immigration, 1850-1890
Timothy L. Moran
15 Riot, Race, and Placing Blame: Press Coverage of the 1885 Rock Springs Chinese Massacre
Rich Shumate
16 "Black Fiends" and "Atrocious Murders": Redefining "Sensationalism" through Coverage of Interracial Crime in the Nineteenth-Century Press
Lee Jolliffe
17 Ida B. Wells and Coverage of Lynchings and Antilynching Efforts in Selected Mainstream
Newspapers, 1892-1894
Aleen J. Ratzlaff
18 Custer and the "Savages": Newspaper Coverage of the Indian War, Summer 1876
Thomas C. Terry and Donald L. Shaw
19 A Moral Panic on the Plains? Press Culpability and the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee
Brian Gabrial
20 Why Women Dared to Make Journalism Their Calling
Paulette D. Kilmer
21 "They'd Vote for What is Pure and Good": Representations of Women in the Gilded Age Press
Jennifer E. Moore
22 The New Woman as Athlete: Coverage of the Sporting Woman in the Gilded Age Press
Amber Roessner
About the Editor
Contributors
Index
Preface - David B. Sachsman
Introduction - David B. Sachsman
Part I. Press, Politics, and Restoration
1 Rebel Yells and Idle Vaporings: The Lost Cause Rises and Dissipates in the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Constitution, and the New York Times, 1860-1914
Thomas C. Terry and Donald L. Shaw
2 The New Departure: The Northern Democratic Press and Reconstruction, 1868-1876
Erik B. Alexander
3 The Forgotten Issue: The Little Bighorn and the Election of 1876
James E. Mueller
4 Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, and the Election of 1876
William E. Huntzicker
5 The President's Private Life: A New Explanation for "The Right to Privacy"
Patricia Ferrier
6 "Always to be the 'Tocsin'": Josephus Daniels, the News & Observer, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Thomas C. Terry and Donald L. Shaw
Part II. Journalism in the Gilded Age: Entertaining the Masses, Serving the Public, and Raking the Muck
7 Haunted Times? Ghosts in Crime Stories Printed by the New York Times, 1851-1901
Paulette D. Kilmer
8 The Rocky Mountains, Yosemite, and Other Natural Wonders: Western Landscape in Travel Correspondence of the Post-Civil War Press
Katrina J. Quinn
9 Consuelo, the Duke, and the Press: Celebrity and Sensationalism in the Gilded Age
Wallace B. Eberhard
10 Are You Going to the Hanging? Georgia Editors and the Movement to End Public Hangings
Wallace B. Eberhard
11 Abolishing Wage Slavery in the Gilded Age: John Swinton and the American Labor Movement's
Memory of the Civil War
Maryan Soliman
12 Babies as Breadwinners: Child Labor Prior to Federal Reform in the Industrial North and the
Industrializing South, 1890-1899
Amber Welch
Part III. Images of Immigrants, Race, and Gender
13 Sickness from Abroad: How Media Framing of New Immigrants and Disease Fueled the Immigration Debate, 1891-1893
Harriet Moore
14 Changes in the News: Characterizing Immigration, 1850-1890
Timothy L. Moran
15 Riot, Race, and Placing Blame: Press Coverage of the 1885 Rock Springs Chinese Massacre
Rich Shumate
16 "Black Fiends" and "Atrocious Murders": Redefining "Sensationalism" through Coverage of Interracial Crime in the Nineteenth-Century Press
Lee Jolliffe
17 Ida B. Wells and Coverage of Lynchings and Antilynching Efforts in Selected Mainstream
Newspapers, 1892-1894
Aleen J. Ratzlaff
18 Custer and the "Savages": Newspaper Coverage of the Indian War, Summer 1876
Thomas C. Terry and Donald L. Shaw
19 A Moral Panic on the Plains? Press Culpability and the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee
Brian Gabrial
20 Why Women Dared to Make Journalism Their Calling
Paulette D. Kilmer
21 "They'd Vote for What is Pure and Good": Representations of Women in the Gilded Age Press
Jennifer E. Moore
22 The New Woman as Athlete: Coverage of the Sporting Woman in the Gilded Age Press
Amber Roessner
About the Editor
Contributors
Index
