Newspapers

Different regions and nations will ultimately hold very different opinions about the same event. This is most evident when analyzing and comparing Civil War era newspapers. Union and Confederate papers give equal coverage to the Election of 1864 and the Virginia Overland Campaign, but with notable regional and partisan bias. Also, the significance of American events during the summer of 1864 didn't escape the British, who continually covered the news as it developed, with the same notable bias as witnessed in American newspapers.

 

Click on the links below to be connected to three different newspaper collections: