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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Keller, Christian B. |
| Title, Analytic | The Reaction of Eastern Pennsylvania's German Press to the Secession Crisis: Compromise or Conflict? |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1999 |
| Volume ID | 34 |
| Location in Work | 35-61 |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| ISSN | 0741-2827 |
| Abstract | This essay will argue that an ethnocultural interpretation of the reaction of eastern Pennsylvania Germans to secession is appropriate, but that the political turmoil between Democrats and Republicans was more bitter, and longer-lasting than ethnocultural explanations would have us believe. Democratic and Republican newspapers battled for public opinion throughout 1860 and in the early months of 1861, and even after the deep South seceded -- indeed, until Fort Sumter was fired upon -- the eastern Pennsylvania German press was irreconcilably divided ... German-language newspapers from Allentown, Pennsburg, Skippackville, Reading and Lancaster provide brief windows on their world during the critical years leading up to the Civil War. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German-American press/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Newspapers, German-American/ Civil War, 1861-1865 -- German Americans |