The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer Covers the Civil War (eBook)

Stephen Davis, Bill Hendrick (Autoren)

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2023 | 1
576 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-737-4 (ISBN)

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Confederate newspapers were beset by troubles: paper shortages, high ink prices, printers striking for higher pay, faulty telegraphic news service, and subscription prices insufficient to support their operations. But they also had the potential to be politically powerful, and their reporting of informationaccurate or biasedshaped perceptions of the Civil War and its trajectory. TheAtlanta Daily IntelligencerCovers the Civil Warinvestigates how Atlanta's most important newspaper reported the Civil War in its news articles, editorial columns, and related items in its issues from April 1861 to April 1865. The authors show how The Intelligencer narrated the war's important events based on the news it received, at what points the paper (and the Confederate press, generally) got the facts right or wrong based on the authors' original research on the literature, and how the paper's editorial columns reflected on those events from an unabashedly pro-Confederate point of view. While their book focuses onThe Intelligencer, Stephen Davis and Bill Hendrick also contribute to the scholarship on Confederate newspapers, emphasizing the papers' role as voices of Confederate patriotism, Southern nationalism, and contributors to wartime public morale. Their well-documented, detailed study adds to our understanding of the relationship between public opinion and misleading propaganda

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Schlagworte: 1864 • Antietam • Atlanta Campaign • Atlanta Journal Constitution • battle of antietam • Battle of Chancellorsville • Battle of Chattanooga • battle of chickamauga • Battle of Gettysburg • Battle of Nashville • Bull Run • Confederacy • Fall of New Orleans • First Manassas • fort donelson • Front Page • General Sherman • General William Tecumseh Sherman • Newseum • Newspapers • Nineteenth century • Print Culture • Second Manassas • trent affair • Vicksburg • William T. Sherman
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-737-6 / 1621907376
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-737-4 / 9781621907374