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In this issue of The Readex Report: a 19th-century breakthrough poses a seeming threat to newspapers; piecing together dirty politics in Reconstruction-era Louisiana; an English poet's timeless work captures revolutionary news; and how imported cadavers had early American audiences looking on with, well, wrapped attention.
Defying Destiny: How Nineteenth-Century Newspapers Survived a Disruptive Technology
By Tom Standage, Business Affairs Editor, The Economist
Following the Trail of a Deep South Massacre
By LeeAnna Keith, author of The Colfax Massacre
Measuring Time in a Blissful Dawn: William Wordsworth and American Newspapers during the French Revolution
By Matthew Rainbow Hale, Assistant Professor of History, Goucher College
A Few More of These Egyptian Carcasses: The Beginnings of Mummymania in Nineteenth-Century America
By S.J. Wolfe, author of Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts
Defying Destiny: How Nineteenth-Century Newspapers Survived a Disruptive Technology
By Tom Standage, Business Affairs Editor, The Economist
It was, announced one newspaper headline, “a great revolution approaching.” A new communications technology threatened to create a dramatic upheaval in America’s newspaper industry, disrupting the status quo and threatening the business model that had served the industry for years. This “great revolution,” one editor warned, would mean that some publications “must submit to destiny, and go out of existence.” 1 To modern ears, this all sounds familiar: America’s newspapers are grappling wit...
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April 2010
Volume 5, Issue 2
Published by
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- Gerald E. Poyo, Ph.D., Chair of History Dept.,
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- Robert L. Paquette,
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Professor of American
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"Makes the events
of the last half of
the 20th century
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