The Penny Press and Antebellum Journalism [index]
Anthony, David. “The Helen Jewett Panic: Tabloids, Men, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum New York.” American Literature 69:3 (September 1997): 487-514.
Bjork, Ulf Jonas. “‘Sweet is the Tale’: A Context for the New York Sun’s Moon Hoax.” American Journalism 18, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 13–27.
Borden, Morton. "Some Notes on Horace Greeley, Charles Dana, and Karl Marx." Journalism Quarterly 8 (April 1957): 20-25.
Bovee, Warren G. "Horace Greeley and Social Responsibility." Journalism Quarterly 63 (Summer 1986): 251-259.
Brazeal, Donald K. “Precursor to Modern Media Hype: The 1830s Penny Press.” Journal of American Culture 28 (Dec. 2005): 405–14.
Brewer, Fredric. “The First Question-Answer Newspaper Interview, Redux.” American Journalism 8, no. 1 (1991): 6–9.
Buddenbaum, Judith M. "Judge...What Their Acts Will Justify: The Religion Journalism of James Gordon Bennett." Journalism History 14: 2-3 (1987): 54-67.
Cline Cohen, Patricia, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz. The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Cook, James W. The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Crouthamel, James L. Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989.
Fee, Jr., Frank E. "Intelligent Union of Black with White: Frederick Douglas and the Rochester Press, 1847-48." Journalism History 31:1 (Spring 2005): 34-45.
Floan, Howard R. "The New York Evening Post and the Antebellum South." American Quarterly 8 (Fall 1956): 243-253.
Franke, Warren. "Sensationalism and the Development of 19th Century Reporting." Journalism History 12 (Autumn 1985): 80-.
Gasffield, Gary D. "To Speak and Act Boldly in the Cause of God: Profession and Practice in American Journalism, 1815-1845." Journal of Popular Culture 15:2 (1981): 3-23.
Goodman, Matthew.
The Sun and the Moon. New
York: Basic Books, 2008. (NY Sun
and the “moon hoax”)
Henkin, David M.
City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York.
Hoffert, Sylvia D. "New York's Penny Press and the Issue of Women's Rights, 1848-1860." Journalism Quarterly 70 (1993), 656-665.
Horney, Jennifer. "Representing the Penny Press Revolution of the 1830s: Reading the Newspaper in Nineteenth-Century American Genre Painting." Columbia Journal of American Studies 4:1 (2000): 93-113.
Huntzicker, William E. The Popular Press, 1833-1865. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Isley, Jeter Allen. Horace Greeley and the Republican Party, 1853-1861: A Study of the New York Tribune. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.
Jaffe, Steven Harold. "Unmasking the City: The Rise of the Urban News Reporter in New York City, 1800-1850." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1989.
Jones, Charlotte D. "The Penny Press and the Origins of Journalistic Objectivity." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1985.
Kendall, George Wilkins.
Dispatches from the Mexican War.
Lawrence Delbert Cress, ed. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
Knight, Charles. The Old Printer and the Modern Press. New York: AMS Press, 1974. (reprint of 1854 edition)
Lacey, Barbara E. From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007.
Leonard, Thomas C. The Power of the Press: The Birth of America Political Reporting. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Levermore, Charles H. "The Rise of Metropolitan Journalism, 1800-1840." American Historical Review 6:3 (April 1901): 446-465.
Lehuu, Isabelle. Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Loughran, Trish, The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Marshall,
Nicholas. “The Rural Newspaper and the Circulation of Information and Culture
in New York and the Antebellum North.” New
York History 88 (Spring 2007): 133–51.
Mayer, Gordon. “Party Rags?: Politics and the News Business in Chicago’s Party Press, 1831-71.” Journalism History 32:3 (Fall 2006): 138-146.
Miller, Linda Patterson. "Poe on the Beat: Doings of Gotham as Urban, Penny Press Journalism." Journal of the Early Republic 7:2 (Summer 1987): 147-165.
Moore, R. Laurence. “Religion, Secularization, and the Shaping of the Culture Industry in Antebellum America.” American Quarterly 41:2 (June 1989): 216-242.
Nelson, Anna Kasten. "Secret Agents and Security Leaks: President Polk and the Mexican War." Journalism Quarterly 52 (1975).
Nerone, John C. "The Mythology of the Penny Press." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 4 (1987): 376-404.
Parton, James. "The New York Herald." North American Review 102 (April 1866): 373-419.
Reilly, Tom. “Newspaper Suppression During the Mexican War, 1846-1848.” Journalism Quarterly 54 (Summer 1977): 262-270.
Russo, David J. "The Origins of Local News in the U.S. Country Press, 1840s-1870s." Journalism Monographs 65 (February 1980).
Saxton, Alexander. "Problems of Class and Race in the Origins of the Mass Circulation Press." American Quarterly 36 (Summer 1984): 211-234.
Schiller, Daniel
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Shaw, Donald L. "Change and Continuity in American Press News, 1820-1860." Journalism History 8 (Summer 1981): 38-50.
Shaw, Donald L. and John W. Slater. "In the Eye of the Beholder?: Sensationalism in American Press News, 1820-1860." Journalism History 12 (Winter 1985): 86-91.
Shudson,
Michael. Discovering the News: A Social
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Stevens, John
D. Sensationalism and the New York Press.
Stillson, Richard T. Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Streckfuss, Richard. "Objectivity in Journalism: A Search and a Reassessment." Journalism Quarterly 67 (1990): 973-83.
Summers, Mark W.
“Dough in the Hands of the Doughface?: James Buchanan and the Untamable
Press.” In Michael J. Birker, ed. James Buchanan and the Political
Crisis of the 1850s. Selinsgrove:
Susquehanna University Press, 1996.
Taylor, Sally. "Marx and Greeley on Slavery and Labor." Journalism History 6:4 (Winter 1979): 103-106, 122.
Tebbe, Jennifer. “Print and American Culture.” American Quarterly 32:3 (1980): 259-279.
Thompson, Susan A. "The Antebellum Penny Press." PhD dissertation, University of Alabama, 2002.
Thompson, Susan A. The Penny Press: The Origins of the Modern News Media, 1833-1861. Northport, AL: Vision Press, 2004.
Thornton, B. "The Moon Hoax: Debates About Ethics in 1835 New York Newspapers." Journal of Mass Media Ethics 15:2 (2000): 89-100.
Tucher, Andie.
Froth
and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and Ax Murder in America’s First Mass
Medium.
Tucher, Andie. “PrinceOfDarkness@NYHerald.com: How the Penny Press Caused the Decline of the West.” American Journalism 17, no. 4 (2000): 121–127.
Wells, Richard R. "The Making of the New York Penny Press: An Ethnographic History of a Mass Cultural Form." PhD dissertation, New School University, 2004. 486 pp.
Whitby, Gary L. "The New York Penny Press and the American Romantic Movement." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1984.
Whitby, Gary L. "Economic Elements of Opposition to Abolition and Support of South by Bennett in New York Herald." Journalism Quarterly 65 (1988): 78-84.
Whitby, Gary L. "Horns of a Dilemma: The Sun, Abolition, and the 1833-34 New York Riots." Journalism Quarterly 67 (1990): 410-419.
Whitby, Gary L. “Tough Talk and Bad News: Satire and the New York Herald, 1835–1860.” American Journalism 9 (1992): 35–52.
Wilmer, L. A. Our Press Gang, Or a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspaper. Philadelphia: Lloyd, 1859.