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Reporting the Revolutionary War : before it was history, it was news / [compiled by] Todd Andrlik.
- Title
- Reporting the Revolutionary War : before it was history, it was news / [compiled by] Todd Andrlik.
- Publication
- Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E203 .R44 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Andrlik, Todd.
- Description
- xv, 384 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- Presents a collection of primary source newspaper articles and correspondence reporting the events of the Revolution, containing both American and British eyewitness accounts and commentary and analysis from thirty-seven historians.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The eighteenth-century newspaper business -- Revolutionary newspaper reading tips -- The cursed Stamp Act -- Frugality and industry -- The late horrid massacre -- The detestable tea -- Rebellion -- Bloody news -- The spirit of liberty -- Cut to pieces -- Good and faithful allies -- Conquer or die -- Marks of heroism -- Conquest and capture -- Delivered with eloquence -- Epilogue -- Revolutionary press impact -- The value of primary sources.
- ISBN
- 9781402269677 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1402269676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012022258
- OCLC
- 778421255
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library