Newspapers October 2009 Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter
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Newspapers October 2009 Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE CONTACTS We got the scoop: newspapers • Melissa Carr [email protected] Editor • Cindy Rich [email protected] • Amy Wilkinson [email protected] INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Topic Introduction 2 Connecting to Illinois 3 Learn More with 4 American Memory In the Classroom 6 Test Your Knowledge 7 Images Sources 9 www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/newsletter Page 2 Newspapers We got the scoop: Newspapers Welcome to the 24th issue of the Central Illinois of the Revolutionary War there were 37 independent Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter a American newspapers. collaborative project of Teaching with Primary Sources In an attempt to deal with Great Britain's enormous Programs at Eastern Illinois University and Southern national debt, England passed the Stamp Act in 1765, Illinois University Edwardsville. Our goal is to bring you which taxed all paper documents. This tax included the topics that connect to the Illinois Learning Standards as American colonies since they were under British control. well as provide you with amazing items from the Library This was met with great resistance in the colonies. of Congress. The Industrial Revolution changed the newspaper Newspapers are mentioned specifically within ISBE industry. With the introduction of printing presses, materials for the following Illinois Learning Standards newspapers were able to print at a much faster pace and (found within goal, standard, benchmark or performance higher quantity. This meant that more pages could be descriptors) 1.A-Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills added to the newspapers so local news could be to comprehend selections. 1.C.-Connect, relate, interpret covered. and integrate information from various sources and genres. 2.B-Read and understand literature Newspapers continued to prosper through the middle of representative of various societies, eras and ideas. 3.B- the 20th century. Some newspapers increased their Write to communicate for a variety of purposes. 5.A-Use circulation to a daily paper. With the rise in technology, language arts to acquire, assess and communicate newspapers are finding it hard to compete with online information. 17.A-Locate, describe and explain places, news sites. More people are choosing to get their news regions and features on the Earth. 17.C-Understand by the Internet rather than a printed paper. While people relationships between geographic factors and society. once got their news in a daily paper, the Internet allows 18.A-Compare characteristics of culture as reflected in for continual updates to receive news immediately. This language, literature, the arts, traditions and institutions. leaves many to wonder if the printed newspaper is quickly becoming a thing of the past. "were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without Library of Congress: America’s Story, Ben Franklin Printer, Accessed 8.03.09 a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Library of Congress: American Memory, Today in History, 1787. September 21 Accessed 8.03.09 In 1721, The New England Courant debuted as America’s first independent newspaper. It was published by James The Independent Gazetteer, or Franklin, older brother of Benjamin Franklin. By the start The Chronicle of Freedom Library of Congress American Memory The Baltimore Weekly Sun Contains the Latest News, And Reliable Commercial, Monetary, Cattle and Market Reports Up To The Moment Of Going To Press Library of Congress American Memory www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/newsletter Newspapers Page 3 Connecting to Illinois By some standards, Illinois got a late start in the fire to the warehouse where the press was stored. As newspaper business. Illinois population was scattered Elijah Lovejoy rushed to face the mob to protect the across the state which made starting a newspaper warehouse he was shot and killed. difficult. Newspapers like the Indiana Gazette from During the 1870’s Chicago became a major player in the Vincennes, Indiana and the Missouri Gazette, published newspaper business. The Chicago Daily News claimed a in St. Louis, satisfied most Illinois readers. In 1814 circulation of 446,803 daily. The newspaper grew and Matthew Duncan took a chance that Illinoisan were eventually outlived every other Chicago newspaper ready for their own newspaper and published the first except The Chicago Tribune. newspaper in the state, the Illinois Herald. In 1880, there were more than one thousand As the population expanded so did the need for sharing newspapers serving the people of Illinois, today that news. Local newspapers began popping up all across the number has dwindled to about 450 current newspapers state and by 1840 there were 43 newspapers in Illinois. published within the state. This number jumped to nearly 300 during the Civil War. Library of Congress: Today in History, November 7, Accessed 7.9.09 With this expansion, newspapers were also trying to Library of Congress: American Memory, Photographs from the Chicago reach specific groups of people. Elijah Lovejoy published Daily News, Accessed 7.09.09. the anti-slavery newspaper The Saint Louis Observer. Newspapers on the Illinois Frontier by James A. Edstrom , Northern Lovejoy faced great danger in publishing an anti-slavery Illinois University www.lib.niu.edu/1999/iht0619951.html newspaper. Pro-slavery mobs began to form, threatening Illinois Newspaper Project University of Illinois www.library.illinois.edu/ Lovejoy and destroying his printing presses on numerous inp/ihistory.html occasions. On November 7, 1837, a new printing press arrived but a mob of pro-slavery supporters tried to set New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Copyreaders at the foreign desk. In foreground, foreign desk editor “spikes” a story (i.e. discards it) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Butte, Montana. Victor Rauh and one of his children reading a newspaper. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/newsletter Page 4 Newspapers Learn more with American memory collections Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1913- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/ 1919 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ cdnhome.html rotogravures/ Founded in 1875, The Chicago Daily News was one of During the World War I era (1914-1918), leading Chicago’s longest running newspapers. With Eugene newspapers took advantage of a new printing process Field, George Ade, Ben Hecht, Finley Peter Dunne, and that dramatically altered their ability to reproduce Carl Sandburg as reporters the newspaper gained the images. Rotogravure printing produced richly detailed, reputation as a “writers” newspaper. The Chicago Daily high quality illustrations—even on inexpensive newsprint News was among one of the first newspapers to paper and was used to create vivid new pictorial establish a foreign bureau. This collection contains over sections. Publishers that could afford to invest in 55,000 images taken by Chicago Daily News the new technology saw sharp photographers. Many photographs in the collection relate increases both in readership and to operations of The Chicago Daily News itself: its a d v e r t i s i n g r e v e n u e . reporters, artists, photographers, switchboard Library of Congress: American Mem- operators, drivers, printers and presses. ory Accessed 7.09.09 Library of Congress: American Memory Accessed 7.09.09 The War of the Nations (New Chicago Daily News press York), December 31, 1919 and four operators standing in Library of Congress front of the press. American Memory Library of Congress American Memory Cartoon taken from front page of Columbus, Georgia newspaper (Free Press), Sunday, December 15, 1940, indicating The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers’ boomtown and prosperity because Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 of defense construction around http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.ht Fort Benning ml Library of Congress Published in France by the American Expeditionary American Memory Forces of the United States, Stars and Stripes was the first newspaper created especially for soldiers fighting in Europe during World War I. The newspaper’s mission was to strengthen moral of the troops and promote unity within the American forces. The popularity of The Stars and Stripes soared to over a half a million readers by its first anniversary. This online collection includes the complete seventy-one week run of the The Stars and Stripes (Paris France), newspaper’s World War I edition. Library of February 8, 1918 Vol. 1 No. 1. Congress: American Memory Accessed 7.09.09 Library of Congress American Memory www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/newsletter Newspapers Page 5 Learn more with American memory collections The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana http:// The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/stern-lincoln/index.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/ aaeohome.html Newspapers are well represented in this collection with almost 300 newspaper images ranging in date from This collection illuminates the history of black Ohio, 1834 though Lincoln’s death in 1865. The presidential slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, election, the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination are religion and politics, many of these topics are covered in just a few of the topics covered in these newspapers. newspapers. African-American newspapers became a Also found are great examples of Illinois newspapers strong force, telling stories of lynchings, politics and local such as The Chicago Times, The Illinois Globe and The news. Clippings from newspapers covering many parts of Peoria Register. Library of Congress : American Memory African-American life is abundant in this collection. Accessed 8.03.09 Another Lynching (from newspaper) Library of Congress Behind the Headlines American Memory Library of Congress American Memory The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress.