ABSTRACT

This article examines the presence of women, African Americans, immigrants, and Native Americans in a content analysis of newspapers for the 1820–1860 years from the Southern, Northern, Middle, and Western states, divided regionally and along the political and regional fault lines of the impending Civil War. There were 3,275 newspaper stories sampled and of those, 571 mentioned women, African Americans, Native Americans, or immigrants, accounting for 17% of all stories. This article concludes that far from being invisible or peripheral to events, ordinary Americans as newspaper readers were clearly aware of the activities and increasing importance of the groups studied.

摘要

本文在对1820-1860年间来自南部，北部，中部和西部各州的报纸进行了内容分析，考察了妇女，非裔美国人，移民和美洲原住民的存在，并按地区以及沿政治和地区断层线进行了划分即将来临的内战。共有3275个报纸故事被采样，其中571个被提及的女性，非裔美国人，美洲原住民或移民，占所有报道的17％。本文的结论是，作为报纸阅读者的普通美国人绝不是事件的隐身事件或外围事件，他们清楚地意识到了所研究群体的活动和日益增长的重要性。