Browsing by Subject "Newspapers"

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    The 1901 Fort Wayne, Indiana City Election: A Political Dialogue of Ethnic Tension
    (2013) Brown, Nancy Eileen; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Snodgrass, Michael; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947-
    In 1901, three German American candidates ran for the office of mayor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The winner, Henry Berghoff, had emigrated from Germany as a teenager. This thesis examines the election discourse in the partisan press for signs of ethnic tension. The first chapter places Fort Wayne in historical context of German immigration and Indiana history. The second and third chapters investigate the editorial pages for evidence of ethnic tension. I also reference a few articles of an editorial nature outside of the editorial pages. The second chapter provides background information about the election and examines indications of the candidates’ ethnicity and references to the German language papers. The third chapter considers the editorial comment about Germany, the intertwining of ethnicity and the issues, and ethnic name-calling. In order to identify underlying bias for or against Germany and to better understand the context of the references to German ethnicity, the fourth chapter explores the portrayal of Germany in the Fort Wayne papers.
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    'Soldiers are continually advised by letter to desert:' Finding Democratic Voices in the 1863 Campaign to Discourage Civil War Soldiers
    (University of Nebraska Press, 2024-09-21) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-
    In 1863, during the American Civil War, family members and acquaintances of federal soldiers from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois sent letters to those troops in an effort to persuade them to reject the war effort, desert, and return home. The letter writers frequently used racist arguments to encourage desertion. Receipt of these letters angered many soldiers, who sent them to hometown newspapers with requests that editors publish them in order to shame the writers. This article examines these letters, which represent a new body of evidence for studying the discourse of Democrats resident in Midwestern states.
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    Using Newspapers
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    Students look for newspaper articles that used Farm Security Administration photographs. Or, students read newspaper articles printed during the Great Depression and identify FSA photographs that could be used to illustrate the stories.
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    Writing a Newspaper Article
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    Students select one or more FSA photographs and write a newspaper article to go along with it.