Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War: 16 (Mediating American History) - Hardcover

Fuhlhage

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433151324 ISBN 13: 9781433151323

Publisher: Peter Lang, 2019

Synopsis

Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War reveals the evidence of secessionist conspiracy that appeared in American newspapers from the end of the 1860 presidential campaign to just before the first major battle of the American Civil War. This book tells the story of the Yankee reporters who risked their lives by going undercover in hostile places that became the Confederate States of America. By observing the secession movement and sending reports for publication in Northern newspapers, they armed the Union with intelligence about the enemy that civil and military leaders used to inform their decisions in order to contain damage and answer the movement to break the Union apart and establish a separate slavery-based nation in the South.

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About the Author

Michael Fuhlhage earned his PhD in mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MA in journalism at the University of Missouri. He is an assistant professor at Wayne State University, where he teaches media history, news reporting, and editing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433151324
• ISBN 13: 9781433151323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294