As editor of the New York Sun for almost three decades in the post-Civil War era, Charles A. Dana built that newspaper into one of the most important of its time. He was the central figure responsible for the Sun's developing a national reputation as a...

Charles A. Dana is best known as the independent editor of The New York Sun from 1868 through 1897, but his principal philosophies and interests were formed during the antebellum period. Dana was a man of contradictions: he was an idealist who insisted...

Charles Anderson Dana (8 August 1819-17 October 1897), editor and journalist, was born at Hinsdale, New Hampshire. His mother died when he was nine and, after staying three years with relatives in Vermont, Dana went to Buffalo, New York, as a clerk in...

The American journalist Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897), as editor of the New York Sun in the late 19th century, created the first modern newspaper. Charles A. Dana was born on Aug. 8, 1819, in the small country town of Hinsdale, N.H., the son of an...