Professional Notes: Re-Dating History

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This essay was part of a panel presentation at the 2014 American Journalism Historians Association convention.

Notes

Kate Bolick, “All the Single Ladies,” Atlantic, November 2011, http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/308654/; Kate Bolick, Spinster (New York: Crown, 2015).

“Girls, Don't Wed until 30, Scolds Gertrude Atherton; Many Better Not Wed at All,” New York American, October 3, 1912.

Email, Kate Bolick to author, 28 September 2014.

Brooke Kroeger, Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1994).

“The Industrial Position of Women.” Westminster Review, March 1899, 318–323.

“Women and the Sweating System,” Westminster Review, January 1904, 90–95.

Brooke Kroeger, Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1999).

Brooke Kroeger, Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (New York: Public Affairs, 2003).

Brooke Kroeger, Undercover Reporting: The Truth about Deception (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2012).

James Redpath. The Roving Editor, or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States (New York: A.B. Burdick, 1859).

See, for example, “A Slave Auction in Virginia,” New York Tribune, March 10, 1853, 6; and “Reporting Slavery—The New York Tribune,” http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/reporting-slavery-new-york-tribune.

For a selection of Doestick's work, see http://ronevry.com/doesticks.html.

Patricia O’Toole, Money and Morals in America (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1998), 117–123.

Email, Patrica O’Toole to author, 26 September 2014.

Horace Greeley, Aunt Sally, Come Up! Or, the Nigger Sal (London: Ward and Lock, 1859).

Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B. (Mortimer Thomson), “American Civilization Illustrated,” New York Tribune, March 9, 1859, 5.

Albert Richardson, The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon and the Escape (Hartford, CT: American Publishing, 1865).

Henry S. Olcott, “How We Hung John Brown,” in Lotos Leaves: Stories, Essays and Poems by Members of the Lotos Club, ed. Lotos Club (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), 233–245.

“The Execution of John Brown,” New York Tribune, 3 December 1859, 7.

Illustrations of Masonry by One of the Fraternity Who Has Devoted Thirty Years to the Subject (Rochester, NY: Printed for the Author, 1827).

The undercoverreporting.org database includes clusters of reportage by subject or theme with full citations for each piece. The cluster “Asylums Undercover,” for example, includes all the articles and series—known to have had significant impact—that involve reporters going under to investigate asylums and mental facilities (http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/asylums-undercover). Prison and jail investigations are under the cluster heading “Jail Time Undercover” (http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/jail-time-undercover). Slaughterhouse investigations are found under the heading “Undercover along the Food Chain” (http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/undercover-along-food-chain). To find all the various clusters in the collection, see the Clusters link under Browse: http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/archive/clusters.

“St. Valentines Day—Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane,” New York Tribune, February 22, 1845, 1; Charles Dickens, American Notes in Works of Charles Dickens: American Notes (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1875), 100.

Julius Chambers, “A Genuine Investigation of Bloomingdale Asylum,” New York Tribune, 28 August through 3 September 1872, including unsigned comment on 31 August 1872. http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/bloomingdale-asylum-expos%C3%A9-julius-chambers-new-york-tribune.

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Brooke Kroeger is a professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003, [email protected].