The Antebellum Era Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860

Subjects:

• History » American History -- Nineteenth Century
• Communications » Journalism

Reviews:

• David A. Copeland of Elon University has put together an exciting and important book based on the Miltonian notion of debate within the marketplace of ideas....[a] significant and deeply engaging book that will give both students and scholars a feel of how some of the era's problems were discussed and debated.
  —American Journalism Fall 2004

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Newspapers and Antebellum America
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Back-to-Africa Movement
• The Monroe Doctrine
• The Elections of 1824 and 1828
• The Massachusetts Public School Act, 1827
• The South Carolina Tariff Conflict, 1828
• The Indian Removal Act, 1830
• William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Movement, 1831
• Nat Turner and Slave Rebellions, 1831
• The Nullification Act, 1832
• The Battle of the Bank of the United States, 1832
• The Penny Press and the Moral War, 1833
• The Alamo and Texas Annexation, 1836
• The Trail of Tears, 1838
• The Amistad and Cinque, 1839
• The Dorr Rebellion, 1842
• Joseph Smith and the Mormons, 1844
• Manifest Destiny, 1845
• The Mexican War, 1846
• The Wilmot Proviso, 1846
• Seneca Falls and Women's Rights, 1848
• The California Gold Rush, 1848
• The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
• The Caning of Charles Sumner, 1856
• The Dred Scott Decision, 1857
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
• John Brown's Raid, 1859
• Chronology of Events
• Selected Bibliography
• Index

PDF Catalogs:

Sale Catalog 2008.pdf