Journalism Series
Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press Through Nineteenth-Century Media
1st Edition
By Gregory Borchard, David W. Bulla
December 18, 2020
Lincoln Mediated provides new information about a historical figure everyone thinks they know. It describes how Abraham Lincoln worked with the press throughout his political career, beginning with his service in Congress in the late 1840s, and detailing how his ties to newspapers in Illinois, New ...
A Press Divided: Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War
1st Edition
By David B. Sachsman
February 12, 2018
Now in paperback, A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspapers were divided between North and South - and also divided within the North and South. These divisions reflected and exacerbated the ...
Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting
1st Edition
Edited
By David B. Sachsman
October 30, 2015
David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colourful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteenth-century newspaper reporting. The contributors analyse the role of sensationalism and tell the story of both the rise of the penny press in the 1830s and the careers of specific...