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1 online resource (xviii, 432 pages) : illustrations |
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Debating historical issues in the media of the time, 1542-8079 |
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Debating historical issues in the media of the time. 1542-8079
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| Contents |
Introduction : Newspapers during Reconstruction --Chronology of events -- The first year : expressions of hope and concern, 1865 -- John's presidential Reconstruction plan, 1865-66 -- The Freedman's Bureau, 1865-72 -- Black Codes, 1865 -- Seating the South's congressional delegation, 1865 -- President Johnson versus radical Congress, 1866 -- Freedman's Bureau Act, 1866 -- Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- Black suffrage : before the vote, 1865-66 -- The Fourteenth Amendment, 1866 -- New Orleans Riot, 1866 -- Congressional Reconstruction, 1867 -- Black suffrage : the first vote, 1867 -- The Alaska purchase, 1867-- Impeachment of President Johnson, 1868 -- Creating the carpetbagger myth, 1867-69 -- The battle for woman suffrage, 1867-70 -- Indian policy in the West, 1867-70 -- Violence and the Ku Klux Klan, 1867-72 -- Sunday liquor laws, 1866-73-- Mormons and polygamy, 1870-77 -- Black suffrage : the Fifteenth Amendment and beyond, 1869-77 -- Chinese immigration, 1867-72 -- Boss Tweed and his New York ring, 1870-73 -- The Crédit Mobilier Scandal, 1872-73 -- The trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1873 -- The Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- The Hamburg Massacre, 1876 -- The compromised election of 1876 -- The end of Reconstruction, 1874-77 |
| Summary |
As the sole purveyors of news and opinion, Reconstruction-era newspapers bent and spindled American public opinion with little regard for independent journalism and great regard for party politics. In other words, the newspapers of the Reconstruction era served political rather than social needs. The issues facing the nation were momentous, and opinions on how to deal with the problems were vigorously presented and defended. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country's print media, this book reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans use |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-410) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Sources
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Press coverage
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American newspapers -- History -- 19th century
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Public opinion
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Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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American newspapers
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Press coverage
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Public opinion
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United States
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History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dickerson, Donna Lee, 1948-
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Greenwood Press
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| LC no. |
2003048827 |
| ISBN |
0313017069 |
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9780313017063 |
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1280908807 |
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9781280908804 |
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9786610908806 |
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661090880X |
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