Overview

Although the American Civil War has received extensive scholarly attention in the 150+ years since its conclusion, far less scholarly work has been devoted to western newspapers and their experiences of that bloody conflict. This first volume of a two-volume set reveals that the West was not immune from the war’s battles, military recruitment, national anxieties, or partisan infighting. The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War explores how editors throughout the region (from the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast) responded to secession, the war, and its immediate aftermath. This edited volume examines editors’ outspoken partisanship (including political feuds), their newsgathering techniques, their financial concerns, and their responses to wartime press censorship. The book also reveals how the war was reported in the western press, while also casting a light on reporting of home front issues. This first volume reveals the financial and editorial lengths that editors went to in order to meet readers’ demands for war and home front news across a vast region where infrastructure was poor and news, therefore, was often slow to arrive. The second volume, The Midwestern Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War, focuses on the press in the midwestern United States.

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Author:   David Copeland ,  Mary Cronin ,  Debra van Tuyll
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   19
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781433175992

ISBN 10:   1433175991
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   20 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Mary M. Cronin, Debra Reddin van Tuyll, and Bill Huntzicker: Introduction: Land. Lots of Land. And Newspapers, Too: Westward Migration and the Creation of Western Journalism – Debra Reddin van Tuyll: By the Numbers: Facts and Figures of Western Editors and Their Newspapers – Mary M. Cronin: “Give Us the War News!”: News Gathering, Distribution, and Audiences – Glen Feighery and David J. Vergobbi: Press Roles and Functions: Community Building in the West – Erika J. Pribanic- Smith: No ‘Cliques or Factions’: Politics, Partisanship and the Press in the West – Crompton Burton: “Stirring Times”: The Coming of the American Civil War in the Western Press – Mary M. Cronin: Acts of Disloyalty: Legal and Extralegal Restrictions on the Far Western Press in Wartime – Hubert van Tuyll: A Distant and Bloody Mirror: The Western Press and the Fighting – Jennifer E. Moore: From Sea to Shining Sea: Domestic and International News from the Plains to the Ocean – Katrina Quinn: “Words are Not Sufficient”: The Western Press Reports the End of the War and the Death of Lincoln – Mary M. Cronin and Debra Reddin van Tuyll: Epilogue: In the Final Analysis: A Region of High- Risk Opportunity – Index.

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Mary M. Cronin (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A former news reporter and editor, Cronin’s research interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century press performance issues, U.S. Civil War coverage, media law, and coverage of women and minorities. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of four previous books, as well as numerous scholarly articles, on media history. Debra Reddin van Tuyll (Ph.D., University of South Carolina) is a professor of communication at Augusta University. She is winner of the AJHA Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History and the Donald L. Shaw Award for Lifetime Achievement in Service to Journalism History.

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