America at the Ballot Box: Elections and American Political History, 2015
Chapter from book edited by Gareth Davies and Julian Zelizer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsy... more Chapter from book edited by Gareth Davies and Julian Zelizer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
The "Common-Place" Politics Issue 2008. Edited, with Edward G. Gray. Originally published in "Com... more The "Common-Place" Politics Issue 2008. Edited, with Edward G. Gray. Originally published in "Common-Place" 9 (Oct. 2008), issue 1, URL -- http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-09/no-01/. Accompanied by "Myths of the Lost Atlantis: A blog series dedicated to Phil Lampi" (posts by guests and myself on scholarly and popular misconceptions about early American politics), URL -- http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?cat=135. Available here as originally published, in the form of a pdf print-out.
CONTENTS
Jim Cullen "The Wright Stuff" Stephen Douglas, Frederick Douglass, and the blackened reputation of Abraham Lincoln
Amy S. Greenberg "The Politics of Martial Manhood" Or, why falling off a horse was worse than falling off the wagon in 1852
Reeve Huston "What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy" Reengaging the American democratic tradition
Richard S. Newman "Faith in the Ballot" Black shadow politics in the antebellum North
Jonathan D. Sassi “Great Questions of National Morality” Lyman Beecher on religion and politics in America
Ray Raphael "Instructions" The people's voice in revolutionary America
BONUS ARTICLE: Christian G. Fritz "America's Unknown Constitutional World"
Richard R. John "Why Institutions Matter" Rewriting the history of the early republic
Sean Patrick Adams "The Tao of John Quincy Adams" Or, new institutionalism and the early American republic
Max M. Edling "When Johnny Comes Marching Home…from the Bank" War and public finance in America, from the U.S.-Mexican War to the present.
Gautham Rao "Sailors’ Health and National Wealth" Marine hospitals in the early republic
Jeffrey L. Pasley "Midget on Horseback: American Indians and the history of the American state"
Caroline F. Sloat "The Technology of Democracy" The material history of the U.S. ballot
Patricia Crain Potent Papers Secret lives of the nineteenth-century ballot
Lisa Gitelman "Voting Machines and the Voters They Represent" Technology and democratic intent
Laura Rigal "Black Work at the Polling Place" The color line in The County Election
ASK THE AUTHOR Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein New-York Knicks Reconsidered Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein on Washington Irving, Aaron Burr, and the lost political and literary world of early New York City
From University of Virginia Press
"The Tyranny of Printers is...an essential journey for those w... more From University of Virginia Press
"The Tyranny of Printers is...an essential journey for those who care about the history of our nation's early years, and the emergence of ordinary artisans as extraordinary leaders, sounding and heeding the call to freedom." --Washington Post Book World
"This liberal critique should be read by many of the great number who are now exposed to the conservative biography of Adams by David McCullough.... [The Tyranny of Printers] is a sprightly and provocative history, written with far more flair than the usual scholarly treatise." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Pasley's book is the best ever written about journalism in the early republic and one of the best about the broader political culture of that era.... For the first time, we can see, brightly and clearly, the vital importance of that era in the history of journalism." —American Historical Review
"The most comprehensive and important work on the partisan printer-editors of the early republic.... [I]t is the first work students and general readers should consult on the subject." --Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"This is a tremendously valuable work.... Anyone interested in journalism, the rise of political parties, or early America should read The Tyranny of Printers at least twice." --Southern Historian
"This is an important book not just for historians of the press, but for students of the early republic generally. Highly recommended." --CHOICE
Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic's central political institutions, working components of the party system rather than commentators on it.
The Tyranny of Printers narrates the rise of this newspaper-based politics, in which editors became the chief party spokesmen and newspaper offices often served as local party headquarters. Beginning when Thomas Jefferson enlisted a Philadelphia editor to carry out his battle with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of the new republic (and got caught trying to cover it up), the centrality of newspapers in political life gained momentum after Jefferson's victory in 1800, which was widely credited to a superior network of papers. Jeffrey L. Pasley tells the rich story of this political culture and its culmination in Jacksonian democracy, enlivening his narrative with accounts of the colorful but often tragic careers of individual editors.
Información del artículo The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liber... more Información del artículo The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1800.
University of North Carolina Press eBooks, Nov 8, 2004
In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the... more In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before 1830. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy. Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political historians show that the early history of the United States was not just the product of a few "founding fathers," but was also marked by widespread and passionate popular involvement; print media more politically potent than that of later eras; and political conflicts and influences that crossed lines of race, gender, and class.
Analyzes John F. Kennedy's popular history book, "Profiles in Courage;"... more Analyzes John F. Kennedy's popular history book, "Profiles in Courage;" and its various spinoff products, as part of an effort to position himself and the Democratic party as centrists moving away from New Deal liberalism. Full citation: Jeffrey L. Pasley, “Profiles in Triangulation: John F. Kennedy’s Neoliberal History of American Politics,” in Historian in Chief: How Presidents Interpret the Past to Shape the Future, ed. Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019), 205–29.
America at the Ballot Box: Elections and American Political History, 2015
Chapter from book edited by Gareth Davies and Julian Zelizer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsy... more Chapter from book edited by Gareth Davies and Julian Zelizer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
The "Common-Place" Politics Issue 2008. Edited, with Edward G. Gray. Originally published in "Com... more The "Common-Place" Politics Issue 2008. Edited, with Edward G. Gray. Originally published in "Common-Place" 9 (Oct. 2008), issue 1, URL -- http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-09/no-01/. Accompanied by "Myths of the Lost Atlantis: A blog series dedicated to Phil Lampi" (posts by guests and myself on scholarly and popular misconceptions about early American politics), URL -- http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?cat=135. Available here as originally published, in the form of a pdf print-out.
CONTENTS
Jim Cullen "The Wright Stuff" Stephen Douglas, Frederick Douglass, and the blackened reputation of Abraham Lincoln
Amy S. Greenberg "The Politics of Martial Manhood" Or, why falling off a horse was worse than falling off the wagon in 1852
Reeve Huston "What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy" Reengaging the American democratic tradition
Richard S. Newman "Faith in the Ballot" Black shadow politics in the antebellum North
Jonathan D. Sassi “Great Questions of National Morality” Lyman Beecher on religion and politics in America
Ray Raphael "Instructions" The people's voice in revolutionary America
BONUS ARTICLE: Christian G. Fritz "America's Unknown Constitutional World"
Richard R. John "Why Institutions Matter" Rewriting the history of the early republic
Sean Patrick Adams "The Tao of John Quincy Adams" Or, new institutionalism and the early American republic
Max M. Edling "When Johnny Comes Marching Home…from the Bank" War and public finance in America, from the U.S.-Mexican War to the present.
Gautham Rao "Sailors’ Health and National Wealth" Marine hospitals in the early republic
Jeffrey L. Pasley "Midget on Horseback: American Indians and the history of the American state"
Caroline F. Sloat "The Technology of Democracy" The material history of the U.S. ballot
Patricia Crain Potent Papers Secret lives of the nineteenth-century ballot
Lisa Gitelman "Voting Machines and the Voters They Represent" Technology and democratic intent
Laura Rigal "Black Work at the Polling Place" The color line in The County Election
ASK THE AUTHOR Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein New-York Knicks Reconsidered Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein on Washington Irving, Aaron Burr, and the lost political and literary world of early New York City
From University of Virginia Press
"The Tyranny of Printers is...an essential journey for those w... more From University of Virginia Press
"The Tyranny of Printers is...an essential journey for those who care about the history of our nation's early years, and the emergence of ordinary artisans as extraordinary leaders, sounding and heeding the call to freedom." --Washington Post Book World
"This liberal critique should be read by many of the great number who are now exposed to the conservative biography of Adams by David McCullough.... [The Tyranny of Printers] is a sprightly and provocative history, written with far more flair than the usual scholarly treatise." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Pasley's book is the best ever written about journalism in the early republic and one of the best about the broader political culture of that era.... For the first time, we can see, brightly and clearly, the vital importance of that era in the history of journalism." —American Historical Review
"The most comprehensive and important work on the partisan printer-editors of the early republic.... [I]t is the first work students and general readers should consult on the subject." --Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"This is a tremendously valuable work.... Anyone interested in journalism, the rise of political parties, or early America should read The Tyranny of Printers at least twice." --Southern Historian
"This is an important book not just for historians of the press, but for students of the early republic generally. Highly recommended." --CHOICE
Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic's central political institutions, working components of the party system rather than commentators on it.
The Tyranny of Printers narrates the rise of this newspaper-based politics, in which editors became the chief party spokesmen and newspaper offices often served as local party headquarters. Beginning when Thomas Jefferson enlisted a Philadelphia editor to carry out his battle with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of the new republic (and got caught trying to cover it up), the centrality of newspapers in political life gained momentum after Jefferson's victory in 1800, which was widely credited to a superior network of papers. Jeffrey L. Pasley tells the rich story of this political culture and its culmination in Jacksonian democracy, enlivening his narrative with accounts of the colorful but often tragic careers of individual editors.
Información del artículo The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liber... more Información del artículo The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1800.
University of North Carolina Press eBooks, Nov 8, 2004
In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the... more In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before 1830. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy. Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political historians show that the early history of the United States was not just the product of a few "founding fathers," but was also marked by widespread and passionate popular involvement; print media more politically potent than that of later eras; and political conflicts and influences that crossed lines of race, gender, and class.
Analyzes John F. Kennedy's popular history book, "Profiles in Courage;"... more Analyzes John F. Kennedy's popular history book, "Profiles in Courage;" and its various spinoff products, as part of an effort to position himself and the Democratic party as centrists moving away from New Deal liberalism. Full citation: Jeffrey L. Pasley, “Profiles in Triangulation: John F. Kennedy’s Neoliberal History of American Politics,” in Historian in Chief: How Presidents Interpret the Past to Shape the Future, ed. Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019), 205–29.
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CONTENTS
Jim Cullen
"The Wright Stuff"
Stephen Douglas, Frederick Douglass, and the blackened
reputation of Abraham Lincoln
Amy S. Greenberg
"The Politics of Martial Manhood"
Or, why falling off a horse was worse than falling off the
wagon in 1852
Reeve Huston
"What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy"
Reengaging the American democratic tradition
Richard S. Newman
"Faith in the Ballot"
Black shadow politics in the antebellum North
Jonathan D. Sassi
“Great Questions of National Morality”
Lyman Beecher on religion and politics in America
Ray Raphael
"Instructions"
The people's voice in revolutionary America
BONUS ARTICLE: Christian G. Fritz
"America's Unknown Constitutional World"
Richard R. John
"Why Institutions Matter"
Rewriting the history of the early republic
Sean Patrick Adams
"The Tao of John Quincy Adams"
Or, new institutionalism and the early American republic
Max M. Edling
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home…from the Bank"
War and public finance in America, from the U.S.-Mexican
War to the present.
Gautham Rao
"Sailors’ Health and National Wealth"
Marine hospitals in the early republic
Jeffrey L. Pasley
"Midget on Horseback:
American Indians and the history of the American state"
Caroline F. Sloat
"The Technology of Democracy"
The material history of the U.S. ballot
Patricia Crain
Potent Papers
Secret lives of the nineteenth-century ballot
Lisa Gitelman
"Voting Machines and the Voters They Represent"
Technology and democratic intent
Laura Rigal
"Black Work at the Polling Place"
The color line in The County Election
ASK THE AUTHOR
Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
New-York Knicks Reconsidered
Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein on Washington Irving,
Aaron Burr, and the lost political and literary world of early
New York City
"The Tyranny of Printers is...an essential journey for those who care about the history of our nation's early years, and the emergence of ordinary artisans as extraordinary leaders, sounding and heeding the call to freedom."
--Washington Post Book World
"This liberal critique should be read by many of the great number who are now exposed to the conservative biography of Adams by David McCullough.... [The Tyranny of Printers] is a sprightly and provocative history, written with far more flair than the usual scholarly treatise."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Pasley's book is the best ever written about journalism in the early republic and one of the best about the broader political culture of that era.... For the first time, we can see, brightly and clearly, the vital importance of that era in the history of journalism."
—American Historical Review
"The most comprehensive and important work on the partisan printer-editors of the early republic.... [I]t is the first work students and general readers should consult on the subject."
--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"This is a tremendously valuable work.... Anyone interested in journalism, the rise of political parties, or early America should read The Tyranny of Printers at least twice."
--Southern Historian
"This is an important book not just for historians of the press, but for students of the early republic generally. Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic's central political institutions, working components of the party system rather than commentators on it.
The Tyranny of Printers narrates the rise of this newspaper-based politics, in which editors became the chief party spokesmen and newspaper offices often served as local party headquarters. Beginning when Thomas Jefferson enlisted a Philadelphia editor to carry out his battle with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of the new republic (and got caught trying to cover it up), the centrality of newspapers in political life gained momentum after Jefferson's victory in 1800, which was widely credited to a superior network of papers. Jeffrey L. Pasley tells the rich story of this political culture and its culmination in Jacksonian democracy, enlivening his narrative with accounts of the colorful but often tragic careers of individual editors.
Papers by Jeffrey Pasley
CONTENTS
Jim Cullen
"The Wright Stuff"
Stephen Douglas, Frederick Douglass, and the blackened
reputation of Abraham Lincoln
Amy S. Greenberg
"The Politics of Martial Manhood"
Or, why falling off a horse was worse than falling off the
wagon in 1852
Reeve Huston
"What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy"
Reengaging the American democratic tradition
Richard S. Newman
"Faith in the Ballot"
Black shadow politics in the antebellum North
Jonathan D. Sassi
“Great Questions of National Morality”
Lyman Beecher on religion and politics in America
Ray Raphael
"Instructions"
The people's voice in revolutionary America
BONUS ARTICLE: Christian G. Fritz
"America's Unknown Constitutional World"
Richard R. John
"Why Institutions Matter"
Rewriting the history of the early republic
Sean Patrick Adams
"The Tao of John Quincy Adams"
Or, new institutionalism and the early American republic
Max M. Edling
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home…from the Bank"
War and public finance in America, from the U.S.-Mexican
War to the present.
Gautham Rao
"Sailors’ Health and National Wealth"
Marine hospitals in the early republic
Jeffrey L. Pasley
"Midget on Horseback:
American Indians and the history of the American state"
Caroline F. Sloat
"The Technology of Democracy"
The material history of the U.S. ballot
Patricia Crain
Potent Papers
Secret lives of the nineteenth-century ballot
Lisa Gitelman
"Voting Machines and the Voters They Represent"
Technology and democratic intent
Laura Rigal
"Black Work at the Polling Place"
The color line in The County Election
ASK THE AUTHOR
Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
New-York Knicks Reconsidered
Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein on Washington Irving,
Aaron Burr, and the lost political and literary world of early
New York City
"The Tyranny of Printers is...an essential journey for those who care about the history of our nation's early years, and the emergence of ordinary artisans as extraordinary leaders, sounding and heeding the call to freedom."
--Washington Post Book World
"This liberal critique should be read by many of the great number who are now exposed to the conservative biography of Adams by David McCullough.... [The Tyranny of Printers] is a sprightly and provocative history, written with far more flair than the usual scholarly treatise."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Pasley's book is the best ever written about journalism in the early republic and one of the best about the broader political culture of that era.... For the first time, we can see, brightly and clearly, the vital importance of that era in the history of journalism."
—American Historical Review
"The most comprehensive and important work on the partisan printer-editors of the early republic.... [I]t is the first work students and general readers should consult on the subject."
--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"This is a tremendously valuable work.... Anyone interested in journalism, the rise of political parties, or early America should read The Tyranny of Printers at least twice."
--Southern Historian
"This is an important book not just for historians of the press, but for students of the early republic generally. Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic's central political institutions, working components of the party system rather than commentators on it.
The Tyranny of Printers narrates the rise of this newspaper-based politics, in which editors became the chief party spokesmen and newspaper offices often served as local party headquarters. Beginning when Thomas Jefferson enlisted a Philadelphia editor to carry out his battle with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of the new republic (and got caught trying to cover it up), the centrality of newspapers in political life gained momentum after Jefferson's victory in 1800, which was widely credited to a superior network of papers. Jeffrey L. Pasley tells the rich story of this political culture and its culmination in Jacksonian democracy, enlivening his narrative with accounts of the colorful but often tragic careers of individual editors.