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2024 Conference Program Now Available!

The Society of 19th Century Historians is proud to announce the program for its 32nd Annual Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression.

Beginning Thursday afternoon, November 7, 2024 and continuing for the next two days at Augusta University’s Jaguar Student Activities Center on the Summerville Campus, the conference schedule features paper and panel presentations covering a wide variety of topics and signature lectures by two renowned historians.

To learn more about this outstanding event, please visit the program schedule for details.

Free Registration Now Open for the Thirty-Second Annual Symposium

Whether you are in the process of submitting a paper for peer review, participating in a panel, or just interested in the presentations of our two renowned scholars, we invite you to register for the conference scheduled for November 7-9 at Augusta University.

To learn more, please visit our registration page located on our Society website.

Renowned Scholars to Highlight Thirty-Second Annual Symposium

Esteemed historians Orville Vernon Burton and Harold Holzer will give signature lectures at the 32nd Annual Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Freedom of Expression at Augusta University.

For more infomation, please see the release!

2024 Call for Papers Now Available!

The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 32nd Annual Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression.

For more information, please visit the 2024 Call for Papers!

Opportunities to Participate in an Exciting Project!

The Symposium also invites papers exploring how newspapers and other publications spread news and stories about the unexplained. Papers and panel presentations will be considered, with author permission, for inclusion in Unexplained! Negotiating the Supernatural in the 19th Century Press.

For more information, please visit the 2024 “Unexplained!” Call for Papers

SOCIETY OF 19th CENTURY HISTORIANS

REPRESENTATIVE SCHOLARSHIP

The Symposium has an impressive record of not only generating scholarship published in book form, but contributions to the field of journalism history that have appeared as chapters in other formats as well as magazine articles, monographs, and assorted presentations. Here is a sampling:

Gregory A. Borchard

Borchard, Gregory A., and David W. Bulla. Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press through Nineteenth Century Media. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2015; republished, New York: Routledge, 2020.

Borchard, Gregory A. Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, first edition 2011; second edition, 2019.

Sachsman, David B., and Gregory A. Borchard, eds. The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Borchard, Gregory A., Lawrence J. Mullen, and Stephen Bates. “From Realism to Reality: The Advent of War Photography.” Journalism & Communication Monographs, 15, 2 (March 2013): 66-107.

Borchard, Gregory A., Stephen Bates, and Lawrence J. Mullen. “Violence as Art and News: Sensational Prints and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century Press.” In Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, Stunts, Hoaxes, Hatred, and Disasters: Sensationalism in 19th Century Reporting, eds. Sachsman, David B., and David W. Bulla, 53-74. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 2013.

Dianne Bragg

Bragg, Dianne. “Abolitionism, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the End of Compromise.” In The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War. Sachsman, David B., and Gregory A. Borchard, eds. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Bragg, Dianne. “1856: A Year of Volatile Political Reckoning.” In The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War. Sachsman, David B., and Gregory A. Borchard, eds. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Bragg, Dianne. “Nellie Bly, Flying in the Face of Tradition.” In Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting. Sachsman, David B., ed. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Bragg, Dianne. “David Wilmot’s Proviso, An Amendment for War.” Presented at the 2016 American Journalism Historians Association. Winner of the Jean Palmegiano Award for Outstanding International/Transnational Journalism Research.

David W. Bulla

Bulla, David W., and Gregory A. Borchard. Journalism in the Civil War Era. New York: Peter Lang, 2010; second edition 2023.

Bulla, David W., ed. Legacies of Slavery and Contemporary Resistance. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.

——— , ed. Why Slavery Endures: Its Slavery Past, Present, and Future. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Sachsman, David B., and David W. Bulla, eds. Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19^th Century Reporting. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2013.

Bulla, David W. Lincoln’s Censor: Milo Hascall and Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2008.

Crompton Burton

Burton, Crompton. “The Century Magazine and Memory of the American Civil War.” In The Civil War Soldier and the Press, eds., Katrina J. Quinn and David B. Sachsman, pp. 220-34. Oxfordshire, England: Routledge, 2023.

——— . “Stirring Times: The Coming of the American Civil War in the Western Press.” In The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War, eds. Mary M. Cronin and Debra Reddin van Tuyll, pp. 145-70. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2021.

——— . “Let Every Comrade Lend Us a Hand: George E. Lemon and the National Tribune.” In Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America, eds. James Marten and Caroline E. Janney, pp. 63-77. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2021.

——— . “Float Along the Frontier: Down the Missouri with Captain Paul Boyton, James Creelman, and the New York Herald.” In Adventure in the Gilded Age: Historical Essays, eds., Katrina J. Quinn, Mary M. Cronin, and Lee Jolliffe, pp. 73-87. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2021.

——— . “Mr. Bennett’s Expedition: The New York Herald’s Arctic Adventure.” In Adventure in the Gilded Age: Historical Essays, eds. Katrina J. Quinn, Mary M. Cronin, and Lee Jolliffe, pp. 184-201. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2021.

Brian Gabrial

Gabrial, Brian. “The Boundaries of Literary Journalism Scholarship: An Analysis of Literary Journalism Studies, 2009-2017.” Literary Journalism Studies, 10, 2 (Fall 2018): 39-57.

——— . “A Moral Panic on the Plains? Press Culpability and the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee.” In After the War: The Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900, 297-312. David Sachsman, et al., eds. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Press, 2017.

——— . The Press and the Slavery in America, 1791-1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2016.

——— . “From Haiti to Nat Turner: Racial Panic Discourse during the Nineteenth-Century Partisan Press Era.” American Journalism, 30:3 (Fall 2013): 336-64.

——— . “A Crisis of Americanism: Newspaper Coverage of John Brown’s 1859 Raid at Harper’s Ferry and a Question of Loyalty.” Journalism History, 34, 2 (July 2008): 98-106.

Katrina J. Quinn

Quinn, Katrina J., and Mary M. Cronin. “‘Our Reporter is Just Come from the Ruins’: Reporting Practices and the 1860 Pemberton Mill Disaster.” American Journalism, 40, 2 (July 2023): 140-67.

Quinn, Katrina J., and David B. Sachsman, eds. The Civil War Soldier and the Press. Routledge, 2023.

Quinn, Katrina J., Mary M. Cronin and Lee Jolliffe, eds. Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age: Essays on Reporting from the Arctic to the Orient. McFarland Publishers, 2021.

——— . “Big Brains and the Solid South: The Role of the Press in the Election of 1880.” Journalism History, 47, 3 (September 2021): 234-50.

Quinn, Katrina J. “Narratologies of Autodiegetic Undercover Reportage: Albert Deane Richardson’s The Secret Service.” Journal of Narrative Theory, 49, 1 (Winter 2019): 1-26.

Debra Reddin van Tuyll

Reddin van Tuyll, Debra, and Mary M. Cronin, eds. The Midwestern Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2022.

Cronin, Mary, and Debra Reddin van Tuyll, eds. The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2021.

Reddin van Tuyll, Debra, Nancy Mckenzie Dupont, and Joseph R. Hayden, eds. Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy. London: Palgrave, 2015.

McNeely, Patricia G., Debra Reddin van Tuyll, and Henry H. Schulte, eds. Knights of the Quill: Confederate War Correspondents and Their Civil War Reporting. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2010.

Sachsman, David, Kit Rushing, and Debra Reddin van Tuyll, The Civil War and The Press. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.