Late 19th-Century Journalism
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Allan, Chris. “Ho for Sitka: Special Correspondents and the Race to Report on the 1867 Transfer of Russian America to the United States.” Alaska History 32:2 (Fall 2017): 1-26.
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American Journalism From the Practical Side. New York: Holmes Publishing Co., 1897.
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Baldasty, Gerald J., and Jeffrey B. Rutenbeck. “Money, Politics, and Newspapers: The Business Environment of Press Partisanship in the Late 19th Century.” Journalism History 15:2/3 (Summer/Autumn 1988): 60-69.
Baldasty, Gerald J. The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Baldasty, Gerald J. “The Economics of Working-Class Journalism: The E.W. Scripps Newspaper Chain, 1878-1908.” Journalism History 23:1 (Spring 1999): 3-12.
Baldasty, Gerald J. E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Banning, Stephen A. “The Professionalization of Journalism: A Nineteenth Century Beginning.” Journalism History 24:4 (Winter 1998): 157-163.
Banning, Stephen A. “Fully Conscious of Their Power: Nineteenth-Century Michigan Editors Search for Journalistic Professionalism.” American Journalism 36:3 (Summer 2019): 371-394.
Barrineau, Nancy W. “Journalism in the 1890s: The Origins of Theodore Dreiser’s Fiction.” PhD dissertation, University of Georgia, 1988.
Barth, Gunther. City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. See especially Chapter 3 (Metropolitan Press) and Chapter 4 (Department Store).
Beniger, James. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Bennion, Sherlyn Cox. Equal to the Occasion: Women Editors of the Nineteenth Century West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1990.
Berens, Charlyne, and Nancy Mitchell. “Parallel Tracks, Same Terminus: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers and Railroads in the Settlement of Nebraska.” Great Plains Quarterly 29 (Fall 2009): 287–300.
Berger, Meyer. The Story of the New York Times, 1851-1951. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951.
Bernhardt, Mark. “The Selling of Sex, Sleaze, Scuttlebutt, and other Shocking Sensations: The Evolution of New Journalism in San Francisco, 1887-1900.” American Journalism 28:4 (2011): 111-142.
Blankenship, Avery. “Twain in Circulation: Early Twain and the Culture of Reprinting.” Mark Twain Annual 19 (2021): 68-94.
Blondheim, Menahem. News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Bloom, Robert L. “Morton McMichael’s North American.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 77:2 (April 1953): 164-
Bogle, Lori Lyn. “Pandering to the Crowd: The American Governing Elite’s Changing Views on Mass Media and Publicity During the Nineteenth Century.” Journalism History 43:2 (Summer 2017): 62-74.
Bold, Christine, ed. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 6: US Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bradley, Patricia. “Joseph Pulitzer as an American Hegelian.” American Journalism 10: 3/4 (1993): 70-82.
Brake, Laurel, Bill Bell, and David Finkelstein, eds. Nineteenth Century Media and the Construction of Identities. New York: Palgrave, 2000.
Branch, Edgar M., ed. Clemens of the Call: Mark Twain in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
Branch, Michael P. “William Cullen Bryant: The Nature Poet as Environmental Journalist.” American Transcendental Quarterly 12:3 (September 1998): 179-197.
Brooker-Gross, Susan R. “Nineteenth Century News Definitions and Wire Service Usage.” Journalism Quarterly 60 (Spring 1983): 25-.
Brown, Charles H. The Correspondents’ War: Journalists and the Spanish-American War. New York: Scribner’s, 1967.
Burt, Elizabeth V. “Shocking Atrocities in Colorado: Newspapers’ Responses to the Ludlow Massacre.” American Journalism 28:3 (Summer 2011): 61-83.
Campbell, W. Joseph. “One of the Fine Figures of American Journalism’: A Closer Look at Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer.” American Journalism 16:4 (1999): 37-55.
Campbell, W. Joseph. Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.
Campbell, W. Joseph. The Year that Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Caudill, Edward. “E.L. Godkin and His (Special and Influential) View of 19th Century Journalism.” Journalism Quarterly 69 (1992): 1039-50.
Chiu, Herman B. “When 1000 Words are Worth a Picture: Now Newspapers Portrayed the Chinese and Irish who Built the First Transcontinental Railroad.” PhD dissertation, University of Missouri, 2004.
Chiu, Herman B., and Andrew Taylor Kirk. “Unlimited American Power: How Four California Newspapers Covered Chinese Labor and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-1869.” American Journalism 31:4 (Fall 2014): 507-524.
Clark, E. Culpepper. “Francis Warrington Dawson: The New South Revisited.” American Journalism 3:1 (1986): 5-23.
Clark, Justin T. “Confronting the ‘Seeker of Notoriety’: Pathological Lying, the Public, and the Press, 1890-1920.” American Journalism 34:2 (Spring 2017): 179-200.
Cloud, Barbara. The Business of Newspapers on the Western Frontier. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992.
Colbert, Ann. “Philanthropy in the Newsroom: Women’s Editions of Newspapers, 1894-1896.” Journalism History 22:3 (Summer 1996): 90-99.
Connery, Thomas. “Julian Ralph: Forgotten Master of Descriptive Detail.” American Journalism 2:2 (1985): 165-173.
Connery, Thomas B. “Hutchins Hapgood and the Search for a New Form of Literature.” Journalism History 13:1 (Spring 1986): 2-9.
Connery, Thomas B. Journalism and Realism: Rendering American Life. Evanston Northwestern University Press, 2011.
Copeland-Campbell, Thomas. The Ladder of Journalism: How to Climb It. New York: Allan Foreman, 1889.
Cordell, Ryan, and Abby Mullen. “Fugitive Verses: The Circulation of Poems in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers.” American Periodicals 27:1 (2017): 29-52.
Cosco, Joseph P. “Jacob Riis: Immigrants Old and New, and the Making of Americans.” American Journalism 20:3 (2003): 13-30.
Coultrap-McQuin, Susan. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Coward, John M. “Making Images on the Indian Frontier: The Adventures of Special Artist Theodore Davis.” Journalism History 36:3 (Fall 2010): 151-168.
Coward, John M. “The Princess and the Squaw: The Construction of Native American Women in the Pictorial Press.” American Journalism 31:1 (Winter 2014): 71-99.
Coward, John M. Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Cronin, Mary M., and William E. Huntzicker. “Popular Chinese Images and the “Coming Man” of 1870,” Journalism History 38:2 (Summer 2012): 86-99.
Cronin, Mary M. “An Almost Undiscovered Country: Frank Leslie’s 1890 Alaska Expedition and the Tradition of Gilded Age Adventure Journalism.” Journalism History 42:1 (Spring 2016): 24-32.
Cummings, Amos Jay. A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist?s 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West, ed. Jerald T. Milanich. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008.
Curtin, Patricia A. “From Pity to Necessity: How National Events Shaped Coverage of the Plains Indian War.” American Journalism 12:1 (Winter 1995): 3-21.
Davis, Elmer. History of the New York Times, 1851-1921. New York: Times Company, 1921.
Davis, Michael. “Forced to Tramp: The Perspective of the Labor Press, 1870-1900.” in Walking to Work: Tramps in America, 1790-1935. Eric H Monkkenen, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
Deitz, Charles. “A Tomb for the Living: An Analysis of Late-19th Century United States Newspaper Reporting on the Insane Asylum.” PhD dissertation, University of Oregon, 2018.
DiGirolamo, Vincent. “The Black Newsboy: Black Child in a White Myth.” Columbia Journal of American Studies 4:1 (2000): 63-92.
Dicken-Garcia, Hazel. Journalistic Standards in Nineteenth Century America. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Digby-Younger, Richard. The Journalist as Reformer: Henry Demarest Lloyd and Wealth Against Commonwealth. New York: Praeger, 1996.
Dillon, Michael J. “Edward H. Butler’s Buffalo News and the Crisis of Labor, 1877–1892: From Populist to Patrician.” American Journalism 16, no. 1 (1999): 41–58.
Dillon, Michael. “Satanic Journalism and Its Fate: The Scripps Chain Strikes Out in Buffalo.” American Journalism 20 (Spring 2003): 57-82.
Domke, David S. “The Press, Social Change, and Race Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1996.
Dooley, Patricia L. Taking Their Place: Journalists and the Making of an Occupation. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Douglas, George H. The Golden Age of the Newspaper. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Dowling, David. “The Nineteenth-Century Weekly Press and the Tumultuous Career of Journalist Leon Lewis.” Journalism History 39 (Fall 2013): 156–167.
Dryer, Trevor D. “‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’: The New York Times, ‘Yellow’ Journalism, and the Criminal Trial, 1898–1902.” Nevada Law Journal 8 (Winter 2008): 541–69.
Dworkin, Mark J. American Mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the Legend of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquin Murrieta. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
Ennis, Ron W. “Bethlehem Steelworkers, the Press, and the Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day.” Pennsylvania History 83:3 (Summer 2016): 337-365.
Erickson, John Edward. “Newspapers and Social Values: Chicago Journalism, 1890-1910.” PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, 1973.
Evensen, Bruce J. “Expecting a Blessing of Unusual Magnitude: Moody, Mass Media, and Gilded Age Revival.” Journalism History 24:1 (Winter 1998): 26-36.
Evensen, Bruce J. “Saucepan Journalism in an Age of Indifference: Moody, Beecher, and Brooklyn’s Gilded Age Press.” Journalism History 27:4 (Winter 2001-2002): 165-177.
Fedler, Fred. “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow and Other Newspaper Tales About the Chicago Fire of 1871.” American Journalism3:1 (1986): 24-38.
Ferre, John. “Sunday Newspapers and the Decline of Protestant Authority in the United States.” American Journalism 10 (Winter-Spring 1993): 7-22.
File, Patrick C. “Watchdog Journalists and Shyster Lawyers: Analyzing Legal Reform Discourse in the Journalistic Trade Press, 1895-1899.” American Journalism 35:4 (Fall 2018): 469-489.
File, Patrick C. “Journalism, Public, Policy: An Institutional View of the Press’s Legal Discourse at the End of the Nineteenth Century.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 96:3 (Autumn 2019): 830-847.
Folkerts, Jean. “Functions of the Reform Press.” Journalism History 12 (Spring 1985): 22.
Forde, Kathy Roberts, and Katherine A. Foss. “The Facts-the Color!- The Facts’: The Idea of a Report in American Print Culture, 1885-1910.” Book History 15 (2012): 123-151.
Forde, Kathy Roberts, and Sid Bedingfield, eds. Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Franke, Warren T. “Investigative Exposure in the Nineteenth Century: The Journalistic Heritage of the Muckrakers.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1974.
Franke, Warren T. “An Argument in Defense of Sensationalism: Probing the Popular and Historiographical Concept.” Journalism History 5 (1978): 70-73.
Freedman, Estelle B. “‘Crimes Which Startle and Horrify’: Gender, Age, and the Racialization of Sexual Violence in White American Newspapers, 1870–1900.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20 (September 2011): 465–497.
Frisken, Amanda. “Obscenity, Free Speech, and ‘Sporting News’ in 1870s America.” Journal of American Studies 42 (December 2008): 537–577.
Frisken, Amanda. Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Frisken, Amanda. Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Fuhlhage, Michael J. “Eastern American Correspondents and the Othering of Mexicans in the Nineteenth-Century Popular Press.” PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, 2010.
Fulhage, Michael. “Brave Old Spaniards and Indolent Mexicans: J. Ross Browne, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, and the Social Construction of Off-Whiteness in the 1860s.” American Journalism 31:1 (Winter 2014): 100-126.
Gates, Sharon Joyce. “Adolph Ochs: Learning What’s Fit to Print.” American Journalism 8, no. 4 (1991): 228–29.
Gentzkow, Matthew, Edward L. Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin. “The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered,” in Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History, ed. Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson. “The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics.” American Economic Review 101:7 (December 2011): 2980-3018.
Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson. “Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers.” American Economic Review 104: 10 (October 2014): 3073-3114.
Gerdts, William H. “Chicago is Rushing Past Everything: The Rise of American Art Journalism in the Midwest, from the Development of the Railroad to the Chicago Fire.” American Art Journal 27: 1/2 (1995-1996): 38-83.
Gleason, Timothy W. The Watchdog Concept: The Press and the Courts in 19th Century America. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.
Godkin, E.L. “Diplomacy and the Newspaper.” North American Review 160 (May 1895): 570-579.
Gorbach, Julien, and Michael Fuhlhage. “Fallen, Broken Places: American Imperial Journalism and Thomas W. Knox’s Traveller Books for Boys.” Journalism History 47:2 (2021): 189-214.
Gorn, Elliot J. “The Wicked World: The National Police Gazette and Gilded Age America.” Media Studies Journal 6:1 (Winter 1992): 1-15.
Gramling, Oliver. AP: The Story of the News. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1969.
Gray, Lee E. “Type and Building Type: Newspaper Office Buildings in Nineteenth Century New York,” in Roberta Moundry, ed., The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Greene-Blye, Melissa. “Great Men, Savages, and the End of the Indian Problem.” Journalism History 46:1 (2020): 32-49.
Gregg, Leigh F. “The First Amendment in the 19th Century: Journalists’ Privilege and Congressional Investigation.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1984.
Guber, Deborah Lynn. ““Make of Them Grand Parks, Owned in Common”: The Role of Newspaper Editorials in Promoting the Adirondack Park, 1864–1894.” Journal of Policy History 22 (no. 4, 2010): 423–449.
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Hachten, William A. “The Metropolitan Sunday Newspaper in the United States: A Study of Trends in Content and Practices.” PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1960
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Harrison, James G. “American Newspaper Journalism as Described in American Novels of the Nineteenth Century.” Phd dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1945.
Harrison, James. “Nineteenth Century American Novels on American Journalism.” Journalism Quarterly 22 (September 1945): 215-224 and (December 1945): 335-345.
Hart, Jack R. “Horatio Alger in the Newsroom: Social Origins of American Editors.” Journalism Quarterly 53 (1976): 14-20.
Harter, Eugene C. Boilerplating America: The Hidden Newspaper. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991.
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Henry, Susan. “Reporting Deeply and at First Hand: Helen Campbell in the 19th Century Slums.” Journalism History 11:1 (Spring-Summer 1984): 18-25.
Holbo, Paul S. Tarnished Expansion: The Alaska Scandal, the Press, and Congress. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
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King, Dean. Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite. New York: Scribner, 2023. Focus on Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of Century magazine, founding member of the Sierra Club.
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Kunzle, David. The History of the Comic Strip: The Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
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