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Americans of 1908 knew they lived in unusual times. And lest they forget, the newspapers reminded them almost daily.
- First American Newspapers
- The Partisan Era, 1780S–1830S
- The Rise of City Newspapers, 1830s–1850s
- Era of Great Editors, The 1850s
- The Civil War
- The Calm Following The Civil War
- The Arrival of The Linotype
- The Great Circulation Wars
- At Century's End
John Pory(1572–1636), an English colonist living in the Virginia colony of Jamestown, beat Archer and Bourne by a few years, submitting an account of the activities in the colony—the health of the colonists and their crops—to the English ambassador to the Netherlands, Dudley Carleton (1573–1932). By the 1680s, one-off broadsides were commonly publi...
In the early years of the United States, newspapers tended to have small circulation for several reasons. Printing was slow and tedious, so for technical reasons no one publisher could generate enormous numbers of issues. The price of newspapers tended to exclude many common people. And while Americans tended to be literate, there simply weren't th...
In the 1830s newspapers transformed into publications devoted more to news of current events than outright partisanship. As printing technology allowed faster printing, newspapers could expand beyond the traditional four-page folio. And to fill the newer eight-page newspapers, content expanded beyond letters from travelers and political essays to m...
By the 1850s the American newspaper industry came to be dominated by legendary editors, who battled for supremacy in New York, including Horace Greeley (1811–1872) of the "New-York Tribune," James Gordon Bennett (1795–1872) of the "New York Herald," and William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) of the "New York Evening Post." In 1851, an editor who had wor...
When the Civil War erupted in 1861, the newspapers, especially in the North, responded quickly. Writers were hired to follow the Union troops, following a precedent set in the Crimean War by a British citizen considered the first war correspondent, William Howard Russell(1820–1907). A staple of Civil War-era newspapers, and perhaps the most vital p...
The decades following the Civil War were relatively calm for the newspaper business. The great editors of earlier eras were replaced by editors who tended to be very professional but did not generate the fireworks that earlier newspaper reader had come to expect. The popularity of athletics in the late 1800s meant newspapers began having pages devo...
Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899) was the German-born inventor of the linotype machine, an innovative printing system that revolutionized the newspaper industry in the late 19th century. Before Mergenthaler's invention, printers had to set type one character at a time in a laborious and time-consuming process. The linotype, so-called because it set a...
In the late 1880s, the newspaper business received a jolt when Joseph Pulitzer(1847–1911), who had been publishing a successful newspaper in St. Louis, bought a paper in New York City. Pulitzer suddenly transformed the news business by focusing on news that he thought would appeal to common people. Crime stories and other sensational subjects were ...
As the 19th century ended, the newspaper business had grown enormously since the days when one-man newspapers printed hundreds, or at most thousands, of issues. Americans became a nation addicted to newspapers, and in the era before broadcast journalism, newspapers were a considerable force in public life. By the end of the 19th century, after a pe...
Sep 17, 2003 · The newspaper headlines of that year reflected both pride and worry about America’s new strengths. Evidence of American might sailed up the Pacific Coast early in 1908, in the form of a white-painted fleet of U.S. Navy battleships and their accompanying escorts.
Jul 10, 2023 · Republican William Howard Taft defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1908 presidential election. This guide provides access to digital materials at the Library of Congress, links to external websites, and a print bibliography.
The history of American newspapers begins in the early 18th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers. American newspapers began as modest affairs—a sideline for printers. They became a political force in the campaign for American independence.
Mar 16, 2022 · This site allows you to search and view millions of historic American newspaper pages from 1789-1924. Search this collection to find newspaper articles about the presidential election of 1908.
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All Resources. Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers. As a new American nation emerged in the 1800s, the first draft of history was written by those who experienced it and recorded it in newspaper pages from coast to coast.
