{"id":1582,"date":"2010-07-15T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2015-05-21T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:53:18","slug":"how-to-read-nineteenth-century-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2010\/07\/15\/how-to-read-nineteenth-century-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Suggestions for Reading Nineteenth-Century Newspapers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today the <\/span>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>states <\/a>that \u201c[their] goal is to cover the news<\/span>\u00a0impartially and to treat readers, news sources, advertisers and all parts of our society fairly and openly.\u201d Newspapers in the 19th Century, however, had far different objectives. <\/p>\n

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As one reads newspaper articles <\/span>posted in House Divided<\/a>, it is critical to identify a paper\u2019s partisan affiliation in order to put the article in context. Editors were rarely, if ever, independent since politicians and political parties usually provided financial support for a paper. If one were to start a new publication, it would not be unusual to solicit donations from politicians. In July 1860, Abraham Lincoln received a <\/span>letter from Jole Johnson<\/a> in which he asked \u201c[Lincoln] to make some contribution to the Support of the paper.\u201d Politicians could also dictate important editorial decisions. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago (IL) <\/span>Tribune<\/em>, <\/span>asked Abraham Lincoln<\/a> in June 1858 for advice on how to respond to an editorial published in the Democrat\u2019s Chicago (IL) <\/span>Times<\/em>. Editors could work with politicians and their political parties to advance a particular agenda through the paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can start to learn more about 19th Century newspapers from the following sources \u2013<\/p>\n

Menahem\u00a0Blondheim, News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897<\/em> (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994).<\/p>\n

James L. Crouthamel, Bennett’s New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press<\/em> (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989).<\/p>\n

Frankie Hutton, The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860<\/em> (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993).<\/p>\n

James M. Perry, A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents, Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready<\/em> (New York: Wiley, 2000).<\/p>\n

Lorman Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War<\/em> (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).<\/p>\n

Dan Schiller, Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism<\/em> (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981).<\/p>\n

Richard A. Schwarzlose, The Nation’s Newsbrokers<\/em>. 2 vols. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1989-1990).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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