Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Studying History
– contemporary History
– comparative History
– social history
– good history vs. bad history
News values
– timeliness
– impact
– prominence – more import the people are/ more recognized name
– proximity – how close it is to the readers
– oddity
– public affairs – government
– conflict
#1 Leading Society
– influencing events/setting agendas
– ida tarbell – investigated standard oil
– civil rights coverage
#2 Standing Alone
– breaking form the pack
– the liberator KKK
– “See it Now”
– Washington Post & Watergate
#3 Personal sacrifice
– William Lloyd Garrison
– Elijah Lovejoy
– Moe Levy
#5 Ignoring Women/minorities
– NY Herald/Seneca Falls
– NY World/Susan B. Anthony
#8 Technological Advances
– McClure’s magazine – print cheaply
– Vietnam War
#9 Journalism = difference
– investigative journalism
– ignoring injustice
Studying journalism
– production
– content
– audience
Production
– how do we know what we know
Primary Sources
– archival materials – most powerful (diaries, letters)
– memoirs
– oral histories
– speeches
Secondary Sources
– newspaper histories
– community histories
– social/political histories
– newspaper articles
Good History
– value of primary sources
Summer of 1776
– using words to transform “lukewarm patriots into fiery revolutionaries”
Sam Adams
– Boston Gazette – 1760
– Journal of Occurrences – 1768
– News vs propaganda
– Bylines
– Good history
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Boston Massacure
– Boston Gazette articles
– Literacy rates
– Fliers
Tom Paine
– Pennsylvania Magazine
– Common Sense – 1776
– Mass audience
– Audience reaction
– Crisis and the Army
Revolutionary Press
– “ that Rebellion would have been impossible without the spur of the press”
Chapter 2: Abolition
– turning America’s conscious again the sins of slavery
Abolitionist Press
– Rev. Elijah Lovejoy – 1st martyr
– William Lloyd Garrison
– Maria Stewart – wrote women’s page in Garrison paper
– Fredrick Douglass – publish the North Star