{"product_id":"the-antebellum-era-primary-documents-on-events-from-1820-to-1860-9780313320798","title":"The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirsthand accounts offer students, scholars, or anyone interested in the pivotal period preceding the Civil War a look at how America's press covered important national issues and events of the day, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise through John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country, Copeland reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion. These are the primary documents that displayed the pulse of the nation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIssues such as abolition, education, and women's rights are discussed along with important events such as the nullification crisis of 1832, the Mexican War, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Each of the 29 chapters introduces an event or issue and includes news articles that represented various American opinions. These introductory essays and primary-source documents illustrate how newspapers and magazines presented matters of great national import, in an age when the opinions of the press frequently in influenced broad American sentiment and action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Copeland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.48w x 1.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313320798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2004 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Reference Bks Annual\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDAVID A. COPELAND is the A. J. Fletcher Professor of Communication at Elon University. He is the author \u003ci\u003eDebating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 2000), \u003ci\u003eColonial Newspapers: Character and Content\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Keach and the Development of Baptist Traditions in Seventeenth-Century England\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). A past president of the American Journalism Historians Association, he was named Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Virginia Professor of the Year in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40924484698227,"sku":"9.78031E+12","price":177.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e8901213-7aa3-4ab7-9563-7ea078e09759.jpg?v=1692191081","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-antebellum-era-primary-documents-on-events-from-1820-to-1860-9780313320798","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}