Category: Press
Herald Square: The History of New York’s Civil War and Reconstruction Era’s Most Popular Newspaper
I have been taking a lot of photos this month of Civil War sites in New York City and its suburbs. Today, instead of looking…
The Journal of Freedom: A Newspaper for the Black Community of Raleigh, N.C.
At the end of the Civil War there were a number of attempts to establish newspapers for Black communities in the South. Most of the…
“An unwavering advocate for the supremacy of the Caucasian race”
I found this ad for a newspaper called The Independent Monitor in the Mobile Register. It states right up front that this is a Whites-Only…
The Impeachment Verdict Will Be Known Immediately Throughout the Land Via Telegraph-May 11, 1868
The miracle of the telegraph would make known the Senate’s verdict in the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson instantaneously. Travelling at the speed of lightning,…
The Woman Who Published “The Reconstructionist” Was a Firebrand and an Arson Target
I recently read the new book The Impeachers and I came across a newspaper that I never heard of before, The Reconstructionist. Here is what…
Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran
Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran published by University of North Carolina Press (2013) 380 pages Hardcover $29.95 Kindle $17.49….
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