James M. Perry, author of "A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents, Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready" (John Wiley & Sons; $18.95; 320 pages), will speak at a reception Sept. 16 at The ...

How Newspapers Reported the Civil War A collection of historic front pages shows how civilians experienced and read about the war. January 10, 2012. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

For historians, this question leads back to the 1850s and the debate over what brought the nation to civil war. The 2020s are vastly different from the 1850s in terms of technology, demographics ...

How a Newspaper Revolution Sparked Protesters and Influencers: Disinformation and the Civil War. How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a ...

Knowing only that the father lived in Atlanta, he sent the telegram in care of the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer, the city’s dominant newspaper during the Civil War. “Dear Father — I am at ...

A home for Civil War history. The D.C. boardinghouse where nurse Clara Barton once lived and worked to help find missing soldiers might become a museum. November 3, 2010. By Michael E. Ruane.

On the 150-year anniversary of the start of the Civil War, Melissa Block speaks with Harold Holzer, author of several books on the Civil War period, about what newspapers said back then — both ...

The Post-Bulletin has taken some grief lately from a few readers who think the paper shouldn't endorse political candidates -- especially candidates those readers don't like.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Historic newspapers from the North and the South showing how the Civil War unfolded are going on display at the Newseum in Washington. The museum about journalism opened the ...

In the decades after the Civil War, the Knoxville News Sentinel, its predecessors in Knoxville and other white-owned newspapers across the racially segregated South wrote about Black people mainly ...