The Reconstruction era : primary documents on events from 1865 to 1877 /

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. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Greenwood Press
Otros Autores: Dickerson, Donna Lee, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
Colección:Debating historical issues in the media of the time.
Temas:
1800-1899
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Press coverage.
American newspapers > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Public opinion.
Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.
Journaux américains > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Opinion publique > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
American newspapers
Press coverage
Public opinion
United States
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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