The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860 by Copeland, David a.

The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313320798)

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The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860 by Copeland, David a.

The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860

$94.00
The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860 by Copeland, David a.

The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860

$94.00
Format: Hardcover
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Firsthand accounts offer students, scholars, or anyone interested in the pivotal period preceding the Civil War a look at how America's press covered important national issues and events of the day, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise through John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country, Copeland reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion. These are the primary documents that displayed the pulse of the nation.

Issues such as abolition, education, and women's rights are discussed along with important events such as the nullification crisis of 1832, the Mexican War, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Each of the 29 chapters introduces an event or issue and includes news articles that represented various American opinions. These introductory essays and primary-source documents illustrate how newspapers and magazines presented matters of great national import, in an age when the opinions of the press frequently in influenced broad American sentiment and action.

Author: David a. Copeland
ISBN-10: 0313320799
ISBN-13: 9780313320798
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2003
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.48w x 1.42d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2004 pg. 56
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2005 pg. 214
By David a. Copeland
By David a. Copeland
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DAVID A. COPELAND is the A. J. Fletcher Professor of Communication at Elon University. He is the author Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (Greenwood, 2000), Colonial Newspapers: Character and Content (1997), and Benjamin Keach and the Development of Baptist Traditions in Seventeenth-Century England (2001). A past president of the American Journalism Historians Association, he was named Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Virginia Professor of the Year in 1998.

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