Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War

Author:   David Copeland ,  Michael Fuhlhage
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   16
ISBN:  

9781433151323


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   23 August 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War


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Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War reveals the evidence of secessionist conspiracy that appeared in American newspapers from the end of the 1860 presidential campaign to just before the first major battle of the American Civil War. This book tells the story of the Yankee reporters who risked their lives by going undercover in hostile places that became the Confederate States of America. By observing the secession movement and sending reports for publication in Northern newspapers, they armed the Union with intelligence about the enemy that civil and military leaders used to inform their decisions in order to contain damage and answer the movement to break the Union apart and establish a separate slavery-based nation in the South.

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Author:   David Copeland ,  Michael Fuhlhage
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   16
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781433151323


ISBN 10:   1433151324
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   23 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations - Preface - Acknowledgments - Section I. The Union's Intelligence Void - Introduction: News as an Intelligence Subsidy - The Role of Actionable Intelligence on the Road to Fort Sumter - Historical Context-Buchanan, Lincoln, and the Quandary of Southern Revolution - The Varieties of Information and Intelligence During the Secession Crisis - Section II. Newspapers, Journalists, and the Emergent Secession Movement - OSINT From Secessia: Actionable Intelligence From Southern and Border State Newspapers - An Ad Hoc Secret Service: News Reporters Mobilize in the North - Section III. Newspapers as the Foundation of Open-Source Intelligence - News Reporting as Actionable Information: How Unionist Authorities Used Information From the Press - Conclusion: News and the Roots of Intelligence- Gathering Organizations - Epilogue - Historiographical Essay - Bibliography - Index.

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Michael Fuhlhage's Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets is a welcomed addition to the history of the United States' greatest internal crisis. What makes this study stand out is the innovative idea of considering the press as open source intelligence, which it most certainly was. After Harpers Ferry and Lincoln's election, the South armed itself and organized those arms, and this was in plain view for anybody who wanted to see it. Fuhlhage does yeoman's work mining the record of this phenomenon. -David W. Bulla, Augusta University


Author Information

Michael Fuhlhage earned his PhD in mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MA in journalism at the University of Missouri. He is an assistant professor at Wayne State University, where he teaches media history, news reporting, and editing.

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