Morning Skim: An Obama Byline, Pork’s Ubiquity and Facebook’s, Well, Ubiquity
An early blogospheric roundup: a presidential op-ed,selling the stimulus plan, learning from housing prices, Facebook's anniversary.
View ArticleCan Micropayments Save Newspapers?
The former editor of Time thinks an E-Z Pass type payment system might make news outlets profitable.
View ArticleWhy Newspapers Can’t Be Saved, but the News Can
Is the apparent demise of the print media actually a "revolution"?
View Article‘A Very Mad-Man’
Lincoln and Henry Raymond, founder of The Times, helped each other weather the storm of disunion.
View ArticleOn to Richmond! Or Not
How Bull Run turned Horace Greeley's belligerence into a plea for peace.
View ArticleA War Not for Abolition
From the beginning of the Civil War, American newspapers fought over what it would mean.
View Article‘A Sad, Fearful, Raging Year’
At the end of a terrible year, newspapers North and South expressed hope and fear for what will come in 1862.
View ArticleNews of the Wired
How the telegraph — and an innovative mapmaker in Boston — changed the way Americans followed the Civil War.
View ArticleScrapbooking the Civil War
How the rage for clipping newspapers helps us interpret what everyday people thought about the conflict.
View ArticleBirth of the Byline
Most newspaper correspondents wrote anonymously during the Civil War, a practice commanders did not like because of the lack of accountability.
View Article‘Meade’s Army Annihilated!’
How the prisoners inside Richmond's infamous Libby Prison reacted to post-Gettysburg southern propaganda.
View ArticleSeeing the New York Draft Riots
A group of uncredited artists employed by the weekly pictorial newspapers followed New York's bloody draft riots that erupted in July 1863.
View ArticleThe Black Press During the Civil War
Throughout the conflict, African-American journalists led a robust debate over the war's meaning for Black America.
View ArticleWilliam Henry Hurlbert and the ‘Diary of a Public Man’
What did an imprisoned Times columnist have to do with a postwar best seller?
View ArticleA Black Correspondent at the Front
The amazing life and views of Thomas Morris Chester, the only black journalist working for a white-owned newspaper during the Civil War.
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