Editor and reformer Horace Greeley (1811-1872) changed the direction of American journalism and played an important role in the social and political movements surrounding the Civil War. Horace Greeley was born on Feb. 3, 1811, in Amherst, N.H. At the...

From the Jacksonian Era to Reconstruction, Horace Greeley was the most famous journalist in the United States--the first newspaperman nominated for president of the United States by a major political party. For more than three decades Greeley managed...

Horace Greeley was the most widely known and generally revered American newspaper editor of the nineteenth century. His pulpit was the editorship of the New-York Tribune and the nationally circulated Weekly Tribune, which he founded in April and...

Two features of Horace Greeley's life make him notable in the fields of communication and journalism. The first is his rise to publisher of one of the most powerful newspapers in the nineteenth century, the New York Tribune. The second is his...

(b. February 3, 1811; d. November 29, 1872) American journalist, editor, and political leader. Newspaper editor Horace Greeley abhorred war. Greeley was one of the most widely read and best known Americans of his day. His life spanned the War of...

Born February 3, 1811 Amherst, New Hampshire Died November 29, 1872 New York City, New York Newspaper publisher and...

Born February 3, 1811Amherst, New Hampshire Died November 29, 1872New York, New York Newspaper publisher and editor, writer, and presidential candidate Horace Greeley. ....

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the...

Famed newspaperman Horace Greeley visited a Union Army winter camp and his visit was captured on film. He is a self-made man who worships his creator," Henry Clapp, Jr., a New York reporter quipped about Horace Greeley who may have been the most...

Williams, Robert C. Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 440 pp. $34.95. The general outline of Horace Greeley's life is pretty widely known. Born in 1811, he would become a nineteenth-century incarnation of Benjamin Franklin; like...

“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This is how scholar Charles Eliot Norton assessed Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1855,...

“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This is how scholar Charles Eliot Norton assessed Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1855,...