The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century New York Newspapers

Lectures
Written By Matthew Joseph

Karen Roggenkamp

 

Read:
Elizabeth Jordan’s “Ruth Herrick’s Assignment”; Excerpted chapters from Karen Roggenkamp’s Narrating the News

Suggested Additional Readings: Jennifer A. Greenhill, Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age (Univ. of California Press, 2012) Julia Guarneri, Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans. (University of Chicago Press 2017); Bonnie M. Miller. From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898 (Amherst: UMass Press, 2011).

 
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