A Narrative History of the American Press

Gregory A. Borchard, a Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), USA, teaches courses for the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies in journalism history, reporting, and research methods. Borchard's previous books include Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press through Nineteenth-Century Media (Routledge, 2015), Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley (2011), and Journalism in the Civil War Era (2010).

Introduction

Ch. 1, Pre-Revolution Print: The Colonial Origins of the American Press

Ch. 2, Thomas Paine, the Partisan Press, and "The Dark Ages of American Journalism"

Ch. 3, The Penny Press: Sensationalism, Populism, and Progress

Ch. 4, Nineteenth-Century Publishing Innovations in Content and Technology

Ch. 5, The Press in the Civil War Era: Pioneers in Print and Photography

Ch. 6, The Press in Transition: From Reconstruction to the Gilded Age

Ch. 7, Muckraking: Reporters and Reform

Ch. 8, Yellow Journalism: Pulitzer and Hearst Battle for Readers

Ch. 9, Public Relations: How the Press Launched an Agency of Its Own

Ch. 10, Early Infotainment in Broadcast and Film

Ch. 11, The Press at War: Propaganda in Print and Film

Ch. 12, The Press in the Cold War: Murrow, McCarthy, and Shakespeare

Ch. 13, New Journalism and the Counterculture: Watchdogs and Watergate

Ch. 14, The Press and the Making of Modern Media

Conclusion

Afterword