If American history students can name any victim of the Boston Massacre, it is almost certainly Crispus Attucks. He became a symbol of African-American patriotism for the Abolitionists of the 1800s and for civil rights activists of the 1900s. Yet Attucks' name doesn't appear in the first newspaper reports about...
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Cultural Conflict and the Battle of the Sexes in Hispanic American Newspapers
Among the various types of writing in early-20th century Hispanic American immigrant newspapers was a genre essential in forming and reinforcing the attitudes of Hispanic communities. It was the crónica, or chronicle, a short, weekly column that humorously and satirically commented on current topics and social habits. In Mexico and...
Creating the Fourth Branch of Government: The Role of the Press in Pennsylvania's Constitutional Debates
The views expressed in this article are the author's and not necessarily those of the Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, or the United States Government. When the meeting of the Pennsylvania State Assembly received the Federal Constitution in September 1787, the idyllic excitement that had emanated from...
