Antebellum Era

Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Firsthand accounts offer students, scholars, or anyone interested in the pivotal period preceding the Civil War a look at how America's press covered important national issues and events of the day, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise through John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country, Copeland reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion. These are the primary documents that displayed the pulse of the nation.Issues such as abolition, education, and women's rights are discussed along with important events such as the nullification crisis of 1832, the Mexican War, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Each of the 29 chapters introduces an event or issue and includes news articles that represented various American opinions. These introductory essays and primary-source documents illustrate how newspapers and magazines presented matters of great national import, in an age when the opinions of the press frequently in influenced broad American sentiment and action.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-12-30
Mått161 x 240 x 28 mm
Vikt819 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDebating Historical Issues in the Media of the Time
Antal sidor440
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313320798

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DAVID A. COPELAND is the A. J. Fletcher Professor of Communication at Elon University. He is the author Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (Greenwood, 2000), Colonial Newspapers: Character and Content (1997), and Benjamin Keach and the Development of Baptist Traditions in Seventeenth-Century England (2001). A past president of the American Journalism Historians Association, he was named Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Virginia Professor of the Year in 1998.

Series Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Newspapers and Antebellum America The Missouri Compromise The Back-to-Africa Movement The Monroe Doctrine The Elections of 1824 and 1828 The Massachusetts Public School Act, 1827 The South Carolina Tariff Conflict, 1828 The Indian Removal Act, 1830 William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Movement, 1831 Nat Turner and Slave Rebellions, 1831 The Nullification Act, 1832 The Battle of the Bank of the United States, 1832 The Penny Press and the Moral War, 1833 The Alamo and Texas Annexation, 1836 The Trail of Tears, 1838 The Amistad and Cinque, 1839 The Dorr Rebellion, 1842 Joseph Smith and the Mormons, 1844 Manifest Destiny, 1845 The Mexican War, 1846 The Wilmot Proviso, 1846 Seneca Falls and Women's Rights, 1848 The California Gold Rush, 1848 The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 The Caning of Charles Sumner, 1856 The Dred Scott Decision, 1857 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 John Brown's Raid, 1859 Chronology of Events Selected Bibliography Index