Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041705798
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041705798
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041728011
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Marketing the Blue and Gray
Author: Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.’s Marketing the Blue and Gray analyzes newspaper advertising during the American Civil War. Newspapers circulated widely between 1861 and 1865, and merchants took full advantage of this readership. They marketed everything from war bonds to biographies of military and political leaders; from patent medicines that promised to cure almost any battlefield wound to “secession cloaks” and “Fort Sumter” cockades. Union and Confederate advertisers pitched shopping as its own form of patriotism, one of the more enduring legacies of the nation’s largest and bloodiest war. However, unlike important-sounding headlines and editorials, advertisements have received only passing notice from historians. As the first full-length analysis of Union and Confederate newspaper advertising, Kreiser’s study sheds light on this often overlooked aspect of Civil War media. Kreiser argues that the marketing strategies of the time show how commercialization and patriotism became increasingly intertwined as Union and Confederate war aims evolved. Yankees and Rebels believed that buying decisions were an important expression of their civic pride, from “Union forever” groceries to “States Rights” sewing machines. He suggests that the notices helped to expand American democracy by allowing their diverse readership to participate in almost every aspect of the Civil War. As potential customers, free blacks and white women perused announcements for war-themed biographies, images, and other material wares that helped to define the meaning of the fighting. Advertisements also helped readers to become more savvy consumers and, ultimately, citizens, by offering them choices. White men and, in the Union after 1863, black men might volunteer for military service after reading a recruitment notice; or they might instead respond to the kind of notice for “draft insurance” that flooded newspapers after the Union and Confederate governments resorted to conscription to help fill the ranks. Marketing the Blue and Gray demonstrates how, through their sometimes-messy choices, advertising pages offered readers the opportunity to participate—or not—in the war effort.
Preliminary Inventory of the Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920, Record Group 393: Geographical divisions and departments and military (reconstruction) districts
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Preliminary Inventory of the Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920, Record Group 393
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Pennsylvania Union List of Serials
Author: Crying the News
Author: Vincent DiGirolamoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199717729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.
Preliminary Inventory of the Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920, Record Group 393: Geographical districts and subdistricts
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Catalogue ... 1807-1871
Author: Boston Mass, Athenaeum, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description