Journalism of the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Bird, Stephen V. “Heralding Economic and Political Independence: Danville, Virginia’s Newspaper Editors Adopt James Gordon Bennett’s Penny Press Model During the Civil War.” American Journalism 20:4 (2003): 55-82.
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Boggs, Colleen Glenney. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals 26:2 (2016): 149-166.
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Borchard, Gregory A. Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Bracken, Donagh. The Words of War: The Civil War Battle Reportage of the New York Times and Charleston Mercury…and What Historians Say Really Happened. Palisades, NY: History Publishing Co., 2007.
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Brettle, Adrian. “Free Speech in the Civil War.” Journal of Policy History 35:4 (2023): 475-504.
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Burlingame, Michael. Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatch of Noah Brooks. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Burlingame, Michael, ed. Dispatches From Lincoln’s White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Burlingame, Michael, ed. Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860-1861. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.
Bussel, Alan. “The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer Covers Sherman’s March.” Journalism Quarterly (August 1974): 405-410.
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Carriere, Marius. “An Irresponsible Press: Memphis Newspapers and the 1866 Riot.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Spring 2001): 2-15.
Carter, Hodding. Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1970.
Carwardine, Richard. “Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: The White House and the Press During the American Civil War.” American Nineteenth Century History (London) 7 (March 2006): 1–27.
Chiasson, Lloyd. “A Newspaper Analysis of the John Brown Raid.” American Journalism 2 (1985): 22-36.
Chandler, Robert J. “Fighting Words: Censoring Civil War Journalism in California.” California Territorial Quarterly 51 (Fall 2002): 4-17.
Chester, Thomas M. Black Civil War Correspondent: His Dispatches from the Virginia Front. R.J.M. Blackett, ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Coffin, Charles C. Four Years of Fighting. Boston: Tichnor and Fields, 1866.
Coffin, Charles C. My Days and Nights on the Battlefield. Boston: Estes and Laurent, 1887.
Cohn, Jan. “The Civil War in Magazine Fiction of the 1860s.” Journal of Popular Culture 4:2 (Fall 1970): 355-382.
Colimore, Edward. Eyewitness Reports: The Inquirer’s Live Coverage of the American Civil War. Philadelphia: Inquirer, 2004.
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Coussons, John Stanford. “Thirty Years with Calhoun, Rhett, and the Charleston Mercury: A Chapter in South Carolina Politics.” Phd dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1971.
Craig, Berry. Kentucky’s Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017.
Cronin, Mary. “Dear Swinton:’ New York Times Correspondents’ Confidential Letters from the Front Lines, 1864-65.” Journalism History 32:4 (Winter 2007): 213-222.
Cronon, Mary M. “War is Thundering at Our Very Gates’: Texas Newspapers During the Civil War.” Journalism History 34:1 (Spring 2008): 23-33.
Cronin, Mary M. “Fiend, Coward, Monster, or King: Southern Press Views of Abraham Lincoln.” American Journalism: 26:4 (Fall 2009): 35-61.
Cronin, Mary M. “Patriotic Ladies and Gallant Heroines: Images of Confederate Women in Southern Newspapers, 1861-65.” Journalism History 36:3 (Fall 2010): 138-149.
Cronin, Mary. Daughters of the New Revolutionary War: Representations of Confederate Women and Gun Culture in the Confederate Press, 1861-1864.” American Journalism 28:3 (Fall 2011): 55-80.
Cronin, Mary M. “‘The North Is to Us Like the Grave.’” Journalism History 39 (Summer 2013): 66–81.
Cronin, Mary M. “Free Speech is Sometimes a Dangerous Privilege: Western Editors’ Support for Press Suppression During the US Civil War.” Journalism History 47:3 (2021): 263-284.
Cronin, Mary M., and Debra Reddin Van Tuyll, eds. The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War. Mediating American History, vol. 19. New York: Peter Lang, 2021.
Crozier, Emmet. Yankee Reporters, 1861-65. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Dana, Charles A. Recollections of the Civil War. New York: Appleton, 1898.
Daniel, John M. The Richmond Examiner During the War. reprint edition. New York: Ayer Co., 1970. originally published in 1868.
Davis, David Brion. The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.
Davis, Harold E. Henry Grady’s New South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990. (Atlanta Constitution)
Davis, Stephen, and Bill Hendrick. The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer Covers the Civil War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2022.
Davis, William C., ed. A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
Dicken- Garcia, Hazel, and Giovanna Dell’ Orto. Hated Ideas and the American Civil War Press. Spokane: Marquette Academic, 2007.
Dickerson, Donna Lee. “From Suspension to Subvention: The Southern Press During Reconstruction, 1863-1870.” American Journalism 8 (Fall 1991): 230-245.
Dickerson, Donna L. “George T. Ruby: Reconstruction Politician/Journalist.” American Journalism 15, no. 1 (1998): 51–68.
Dickerson, Donna Lee. The Reconstruction Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Diffley, Kathleen. “Splendid Patriotism: How the Illustrated London News Pictured the Confederacy.” Comparative American Studies (London) 5 (December 2007): 385–407.
Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth. The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021.
Dumond, Dwight L., ed. Southern Editorials on Secession. New York: Century, 1931.
DuPont, Nancy McKenzie. “The Gathering Tempest: The Role of Mississippi Newspapers in the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861.” Phd dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1997.
Ellen, John Calhoun, Jr. “Political Newspapers in the Piedmont Carolinas in the 1850s.” PhD dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1958.
Ellis, B. G. The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War’s Great Newspaper Run. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003.
Endres, Fredric R. “The Northern Press and the Civil War.” PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 1975.
Endres, Kathleen L. “The Women’s Press in the Civil War: A Portrait of Patriotism, Propaganda, and Prodding.” Civil War History 30:1 (March 1984): 31-53.
Fahrney, Ralph Ray. Horace Greeley and the ‘Tribune’ in the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929.
Fermer, Douglas. James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald: A Study of Editorial Opinion in the Civil War Era, 1854-1867. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Floan, Howard R. “The New York Evening Post and the Antebellum South.” American Quarterly 8 (Fall 1956): 243-53.
Fuhlhage, Michael. “The Most Solemn and Impressive Duty: New York Tribune Reporter Albert Deane Richardson’s Post-Captivity Campaign to Relive Suffering Prisoners During the Civil War.” Journalism History 39:2 (2013): 82-93.
Fulhage, Michael. “To Limit the Spread of Slavery: A Boston Journal Correspondent’s Multiple Roles in the Kansas Free State Movement.” Journalism History 43:3 (Fall 2017): 143-153.
Fuhlhage, Michael. Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Peter Lang, 2019.
Fuhlhage, Michael, Jade Metzger-Riftkin, Sarah Walker, and Nicholas Prephan. “The News Ecosystem During the Birth of the Confederacy: South Carolina Succession in Southern Newspapers.” American Journalism 37:2 (Spring 2020): 216-243.
Gabrial, Brian. “A ‘Crisis of Americanism’: Newspaper Coverage of John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry and a Question of Loyalty.” Journalism History 34:2 (Summer 2008): 98- 106.
Garvey, Ellen Gruber. “Anonymity, Authorship, and Recirculation: A Civil War Episode.” Book History 9 (2006): 159-178.
George Jr., Joseph. “A Catholic Family Newspaper Views the Lincoln Administration: John Mullaly’s Copperhead Weekly.” Civil War History 24:2 (June 1978): 112-132.
George Jr., Joseph. “The World Will Little Note? The Philadelphia Press and the Gettysburg Address.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 114 (July 1990): 385-398.
Giesberg, Judith. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of Modern Morality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Goldsmith, Adolph G. “Reporting the Civil War: Union Army Press Relations.” Journalism Quarterly 33 (1956): 478.
Graber, Samuel J. Twice-Divided Nation: National Memory, Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Graham, Thomas S. “Florida Politics and the Tallahassee Press, 1845-1861.” Florida Historical Quarterly 46 (1968): 234-242.
Grant, Alfred. The American Civil War and the British Press. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
Griffin, Richard E., ed. Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
Grover, Jan Zita. “The First Living Room War: The Civil War in the Illustrated Press.” Afterimage (February 1984): 8-11.
Guarneri, Carl J. Lincoln’s Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019.
Guback, Thomas H. “General Sherman’s War on the Press.” Journalism Quarterly 36 (Spring 1959): 171.
Harper, Robert S. Lincoln and the Press. New York: McGraw Hill, 1951.
Harris, Brayton. Blue and Grey in Black and White: Newspapers in the Civil War. Washington DC: Brassey’s, 1999.
Harris, John M. “‘Truthful as the Record of Heaven’: The Battle of Antietam and the Birth of Photojournalism.” Southern Cultures 19 (Fall 2013): 79–94.
Hills, Patricia. “Cultural Racism: Resistance and Accommodation in the Civil War Art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast.” in Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture, ed. Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
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