*The first volume of its kind- there are no other handbooks focusing solely on American Journalism History. *Avoids the strictly chronological approach adopted by many volumes looking at the history of journalism. Instead, by addressing segments of journalism over time, this companion considers developments not only in the context in which they occurred but also that in which they are being discussed, allowing for more structural analysis and criticism. *Journalism History is taught at the master’s and/or doctoral level in more than 65 US universities. Although focusing on US Journalism, numerous chapters in this volume would be useful to researchers in other countries, particularly the chapter on theory, concepts and historiography.

Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War reveals the evidence of secessionist conspiracy that appeared in American newspapers from the end of the 1860 presidential campaign to just before the first major battle of the American Civil War. This book tells the story of the Yankee reporters who risked their lives by going undercover in hostile places that became the Confederate States of America. By observing the secession movement and sending reports for publication in Northern newspapers, they armed the Union with intelligence about the enemy that civil and military leaders used to inform their decisions in order to contain damage and answer the movement to break the Union apart and establish a separate slavery-based nation in the South.