David B. Sachsman holds the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. Previously, he was chair of the department of journalism and mass media at Rutgers University, USA. Some of his many books include The Civil War and the Press, Words at War, and Seeking a Voice. David W. Bulla is an associate professor of journalism at Zayed University's College of Communication and Media Sciences, UAE. He is the author of Lincoln's Censor.

• PrefaceDavid B. SachsmanAcknowledgmentsDavid B. SachsmanIntroductionDavid W. Bulla and David B. SachsmanI The Many Faces of Sensationalism1 Yellow Journalism: Why So Maligned and Misunderstood?W. Joseph Campbell2 "Alarming Intelligence": Sensationalism in Newspapers after the Raids at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and St. Albans, VermontBrian Gabrial3 "What H. G. Knows About . . .": Cartoonist Thomas Nast's 1872 Crusade against Presidential Candidate Horace GreeleyJennifer E. Moore, William E. Huntzicker, and Hazel Dicken-Garcia4 Publishing Violence as Art and News: Sensational Prints and Pictures in the 19th-Century PressGregory A. Borchard, Stephen Bates, and Lawrence J. Mullen5 Sensational Journalism in the Mid-19th CenturyDavid W. Bulla and Heather R. HaleyII Mudslinging, Muckraking, Scandals, and Yellow Journalism6 "Despicable Journalism": Sensationalism and the American Presidency in the 19th CenturyCrompton Burton7 Naughty Seeds of Sensationalism: Gossip and Celebrity in 19th-Century ReportingJack Breslin8 "Ours Has Been No Pleasing Task": Sensationalism in Frank Leslie's Campaign against Swill MilkJennifer E. Moore9 Anglophobia as Art: Free Trade and Protection in Grover Cleveland Political CartoonsHarlen Makemson10 Cuba's "Hot Little Rebel" and Spain's "Criminal Fugitive": The Prison Escape of Evangelina Cisneros in 1897Carol Wilcox11 Inheritors of a Sentimental Mantle: The 19th-Century Roots of Progressive Era MuckrakingJessica DormanIII Murder, Mayhem, Stunts, Hoaxes, and Disasters12 "Still Another Horror!": Religion and Death in 19th-Century American NewspapersLes Sillars13 Sex, Sin, and Sensation: Two Major Crime Stories in Antebellum New YorkWilliam E. Huntzicker14 In Defense of Vespertilio-homo: Finding the Truth in the 1835 Moon HoaxJames Eric Black15 Pushing the Boundaries of Propriety: The Rise of the Penny Press, Flash Papers, and Illustrated NewspapersWilliam E. Huntzicker16 New York Times Accident Stories: Sensational Coverage Warns of ConsequencesPaulette D. Kilmer17 Nellie Bly: Flying in the Face of TraditionDianne Bragg18 19th-Century Ship Captains in Reality and Mythos: The Role of Disaster Stories in Defining Seafaring HeroesPaulette D. KilmerIV Hatred19 The Making of a "Scoundrel": Brigham Young and the Sensationalist Press, 1855–1860Katrina J. Quinn20 Marches, Massacres, and Mayhem in the Civil War Period: Did Sensational News Always Lead to Sensationalized Reporting?Debra Reddin van Tuyll21 "Lawless Louisiana": New Orleans Newspapers, Race, and the Battle of Liberty PlaceNancy McKenzie DupontAbout the EditorsList of ContributorsIndex