Quotes by : Harold Holzer

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of....

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was....

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper....

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis....

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.