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by Harold Holzer


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  DISSERTATIONS

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  ———. “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln.” Scribner’s Monthly 15 (February/March 1878): 673–81.

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  ———. “When Lincoln Was Inaugurated,” Ladies’ Home Journal (March 1897): 7–8.

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  ———. “The Telegraph, Censorship, and Politics at the Outset of the Civil War.” Civil War History 40 (June 1994): 95–118.

  Klement, Frank. “ ‘Brick’ Pomeroy: Copperhead and Curmudgeon.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 35 (Winter 1951): 106–13, 156–57.

  Kyle, Otto R. “Mr. Lincoln Steps Out: The Anti-Nebraska Editors’ Convention.” The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 5 (March 1948): 25–37.

  Littlefield, John H. “Recollections of One Who Studied Law with Lincoln.” In William Hayes Ward, ed., Abraham Lincoln: Tributes from His Associates (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895), 200–206.

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  Malone, Henry T. “Atlanta Journalism During the Confederacy. The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37 (September 1953): 210–19.

  ———. “The Charleston Daily Courier: Standard Bearer of the Confederacy.” Journalism Quarterly 26 (June 1949): 307–15.

  ———. “The Weekly Atlanta Intelligencer as a Secessionist Journal.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37 (December 1953): 278–86.

  Matthews, Sidney T. “Control of the Baltimore Press During the Civil War.” Maryland Historical Magazine 36 (June 1941): 150–70.

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  ———. “The Dynamism of American Journalism from 1787 to 1865.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 61 (October 1937): 435–45.

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  ———. “Notes on Journalism.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 97 (July 1898): 213–23.

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