History Major Standing. Newspapers in the 1850s were fiercely partisan and intensely sectional. Editors disagreed vehemently with one another about the meaning and importance of events such as the Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and the caning of Charles Sumner, and they also often disagreed about what actually happened. In this seminar, students will write major research papers analyzing some aspect of newspapers' partisan and sectional coverage of the events leading to the Civil War. The course is designed to teach students how historians research, develop a thesis, organize their findings, and write their analysis from start to finish.
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