Firsthand accounts offer students, scholars, or anyone
interested in the pivotal period preceding the Civil War a look at
how America's press covered important national issues and events of
the day, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise through John
Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Using editorials, letters, essays,
and news reports that appeared throughout the country, Copeland
reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the
press to influence opinion. These are the primary documents that
displayed the pulse of the nation.
Issues such as abolition, education, and women's rights are
discussed along with important events such as the nullification
crisis of 1832, the Mexican War, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Each
of the 29 chapters introduces an event or issue and includes news
articles that represented various American opinions. These
introductory essays and primary-source documents illustrate how
newspapers and magazines presented matters of great national
import, in an age when the opinions of the press frequently in
influenced broad American sentiment and action.
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