...This chapter introduces the history of newspapers and print culture in twentieth-century Mexico. The introduction also talks about various influences on the production of newspapers. civil society Coalición Defensora de los Derechos Ciudadanos CDDC López Mateos Adolfo Madrazo Carlos Mexico City...

...The first chapter examines five cases covered in Black newspapers from New York and Chicago about violent acts between alleged Black lady lovers. These articles did the cultural work of introducing the concept of “the lesbian” to Black readers as an inherently criminal figure. The articles reveal...

... also discusses the role of print such as newspapers and journals, as well as broadsides and personal correspondence, in disseminating the culture created by Confederates. In particular, it highlights the way newspapers emerged as an important medium that allowed nationalism to flourish by giving...

...This chapter discusses the problem with negro theater, negro newspapers, and negro clubs. It was not just that they undermined the idea that Brazil was truly a society without racism and therefore without need for social transformation. Perhaps...

...This chapter explores the nature, structure, and business of colonial newspapers in the 1770s. It explores how the concept of a “free press” was changing with the radicalization of American politics in the 1770s. Patriot political leaders, such as John Adams and Sam Adams, realized the power...

... of activism most women in Atlanta and Charlotte stopped at the bar seeking comfort and anonymity in a chosen queer community. Spaces outside of bars, like softball fields, offered additional queer community. Newspapers and bar guides helped queer women locate each other. bars queer Enke Finn Mrs P’s...

...This chapter examines Irish racial discourse in the Australian colonies during the five years that the Young Irelanders spent there as “state prisoners.” Juxtaposing the private and public writings of these exiles with the opinions of Irish Australia’s main weekly newspaper, the chapter reveals...

...Peter, a serial runaway whose life is chronicled in four newspaper advertisements over the course of ten years, made his first escape in 1705 with a Native American sailor and, probably, a Welsh soldier. The announcement of Peter’s capture several months later, in 1706, demonstrates the efficacy...

... South Carolina Tennessee Copperheads Delaware repudiation Army of the Potomac Young John Russell Philadelphia Inquirer American Civil War Bonds Jay Cooke Marketing Newspapers Seven Thirty Loan Drive In March 1865, an article in the Philadelphia Press ran with the headline...

... marauding, including the 1713 Peace of Utrecht, the America Act, the print media especially newspapers, and the information revolution. It also considers the most influential text documenting the War on Pirates: A General History of the Pyrates, from Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island...

... and property to unusual levels of vulnerability and risk on a fairly regular basis. For that reason, and also because ships’ captains were crucial sources of information for printers, shipwreck stories were the most common early disaster narratives. Although newspapers initially printed only perfunctory...

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...) union of two companionate souls. Both of these trends meant that child marriage increasingly came into disfavor. Focusing on depictions of child marriage in newspapers, debates about statutory rape laws, and marriage and divorce reform leagues, this chapter documents succesful efforts to raise the age...

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... administration and broadly supported its efforts to weaken the Confederacy through conscription, emancipation, and "hard war." This campaign elicited a backlash from Democratic men at home and in the ranks, but the publication of such a vehement political stance from the army throughout Northern newspapers...

... Africans he first mentally assembled a narrative of their enslavement. This chapter reconstructs several of those narratives from Sewall’s journal, newspapers, court records, and other sources, tracking the ways in which black African residents of Boston responded to Sewall’s hypocrisy during the city’s...

...Most black Africans whose stories were excerpted in colonial newspapers remain anonymous, and those whose names are not recorded were anonymous even to contemporaries. But a few black Africans won a form of local fame or infamy through their repeated attempts to escape captivity. Their stories can...

...The first runaway slave advertisement in British North America was unusual in that it described a woman—one of just a handful of newspaper advertisements seeking escaped Black African women that were published in the first decades of the eighteenth century. Many male runaways had contacts...