The Antebellum Press

List of Figures; Preface, David B. Sachsman; Contributors; Introduction, Gregory A. Borchard; Chapter1 Newspapers, Agenda Setting, and a Nation Under Stress, Donald L. Shaw and Thomas C. Terry, with Milad Minooie; Chapter 2 The "Irrepressible Conflict" and the Press in the Late Antebellum Period Debra Reddin van Tuyll; Part I: Nullification, Abolition, and Division; Chapter 3 Nat Turnerâs Revolt Spurs Southern Fears and Sparks Public Debate over Slavery James Scythes; Chapter 4 Disunion or Submission? Southern Editors and the Nullification Crisis, 1830â"1833 Erika Pribanic-Smith; Chapter 5 Abolitionist Editors: Pushing the Boundaries of Freedomâs Forum David W. Bulla; Chapter 6 When the Pen Gives Way to the Sword: Editorial Violence in the Nineteenth Century Abigail G. Mullen; Chapter 7 An Editorial House Divided: The Texas Press Response to the Compromise of 1850 Mary M. Cronin; Chapter 8 "The Good Old Cause": The Fugitive Slave Law and Revolutionary Rhetoric in The Boston Daily Commonwealth Nicole C. Livengood; Chapter 9 Franklin Pierce and the Failure of Compromise: Newspaper Coverage of the Compromise Candidate, the "Nebraska Act," and the Midterm Elections of 1854 Katrina J. Quinn; Chapter 10 Abolitionism, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the End of Compromise Dianne M. Bragg; Chapter 11 "Like so many black skeletons": The Slave Trade through American and British Newspapers, 1808â"1865 Thomas C. Terry and Donald L. Shaw; Part II: The Election of 1856, Dred Scott, and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Chapter 12 1856: A Year of Volatile Political Reckoning Dianne M. Bragg; Chapter 13 Doughface Democrats, James Buchanan, and Manliness in Northern Print and Political Culture Brie Swenson Arnold; Chapter 14 "Free Men, Free Speech, Free Press, Free Territory, and Fr©mont" Gregory A. Borchard; Chapter 15 Newspaper Coverage of Dred Scott Inflames a Divided Nation William E. Huntzicker; Chapter 16 "More than a Skirmish": Press Coverage of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates David W. Bulla; Part III: The Election of 1860 and the Crisis of Secession; Chapter 17 The Democrats Divide: Newspaper Coverage of the 1860 Presidential Conventions Brian Gabrial; Chapter 18 Fanning the Flames: Extremist Rhetoric in the Antebellum Press Phillip Lingle; Chapter 19 The Fire-Eating Charleston Mercury: Stoking the Flames of Secession and Civil War Debra Reddin van Tuyll; Chapter 20 "Our all is at stake": The Anti-Secession Newspapers of Mississippi Nancy McKenzie Dupont; Chapter 21 Exchange Articles Carried by the New York Evening Post, December 13â"31, 1860 Erika Thrubis; Chapter 22 War of Words: Border State Editorials During the Secession Period Melony Shemberger; Index