The Weekly Caucasian was a newspaper published in Lafayette County, Missouri in the United States from 1866 to 1875.[1] According to one historian of Reconstruction "supporting the virtues of the Confederacy, applying the lessons of 'The Lost Cause' to Missouri, and aggressively advocating the program of the Democratic Party" was a profitable formula for the publishers.[2] There were other newspapers with similar names and "in addition to sharing a name, the papers shared overtly white supremacist content"; a research team at the Washington University in St. Louis is trying to determine if this "was a loose network of publications or an organized one and if the papers picked up stories from each other or worked independently."[3]
References
edit- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "The weekly Caucasian. [volume]". ISSN 2375-4575. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Young, Patrick (August 30, 2019). "Seeing Reconstruction in the Fall of 1868 Through the Eyes of The "Weekly Caucasian" Newspaper from Missouri". The Reconstruction Era. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Bird, Jenny (October 31, 2023). "What historical newspapers can reveal about the spread of racial terror". Washington University in St. Louis, Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
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