Mass Communication and the Civil War

Example of a Mass Communication Application

Journalism
Public Speeking
Speech Communication

More Applications

How were newspapers used to affect public opinion of the war, both North and South?
Consider the role of political cartoonists in support of the war on the homefront.
Which Civil War journalists/artists became cultural icons after the war? (see Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast).
How did the war affect newspaper production in the South? (See Vicksburg printed on back of wallpaper)
Karl Marx covered the war for ???
Why did Sherman despise journalists?
Compare modern day warfare and the internet with 1860s newspapers.
mass communications
first audience to know what their elected officials looked like?
How can we use newspapers to study culture: humor, literature, science, technology, popular culture,

Professional Associations

Society of Professional Journalists
16 S. Jackson Street
Greencastle, Indiana 46135-1514
Telephone: (765) 653-3333
Fax: (765) 653-4631
Email: spj@spjhq.org

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Bibliography/References

Author	Title	Publisher	Year
	Civil War Newspapers	Newspaper Americana, Ltd.	1960
Harris, Brayton	Blue & Gray in Black & White: Newspapers in the Civil War	Brassey's	1999
Heuvel, Jon Vanden	Untapped Sources: America's Newspaper Archives and Histories	Gannett Foundation Media Center	1991
Maihafer, Harry J.	The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana	Brassey's, Inc.	1998
Merrill, John C.	The Dialectic in Journalism: Toward a Responsible Use of Press Freedom	Louisiana State University Press	1989
Mott, Frank Luther	American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States Through 250 Years, 1690-1940	Macmillan Company	1947
Reynolds, Donald E.	Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis	Vanderbilt University Press	1970
Sachsman, David B. et. al.	The Civil War and the Press	Transaction Publishers	1999
Starr, Louis M.	Reporting the Civil War	Collier	1962

Journalism History
Web Journal of Mass Communication Research
Media History Monographs

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