Benjamin Henry Day

And so there's a lot of people all across the country getting access to the same news.

There's also the fact that the penny press becomes a reality in the 1830s, first with Benjamin Day's New York Sun.

And newspapers become broadly affordable, and their content, which used to only appeal to sort of the political and merchant elites of American society, ends up becoming more mass consumable.

And I would be bereft not to mention that when we get into the 1850s, the political tension in the country with things like the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott decision in 57, and then John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.

And so there's a lot of people all across the country getting access to the same news.

There's also the fact that the penny press becomes a reality in the 1830s, first with Benjamin Day's New York Sun.

And newspapers become broadly affordable, and their content, which used to only appeal to sort of the political and merchant elites of American society, ends up becoming more mass consumable.

And I would be bereft not to mention that when we get into the 1850s, the political tension in the country with things like the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott decision in 57, and then John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.

And so there's a lot of people all across the country getting access to the same news.

Um, there's, uh, also the fact that the penny press becomes a reality in 1830s first with Benjamin Day's New York sun and, um, newspapers become broadly affordable and their content, which used to only appeal to, um, sort of the political and merchant elites of American society ends up becoming more, uh, mass consumable, uh, And I would be bereft not to mention that when we get into the 1850s, the political tension in the country with things like the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott decision in 57, and then John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.

For very politically oriented newspapers and a sort of citizen readership that's very politically conscious, they gobbled up, they devoured anything that had to do with contentious American politics.

And of course, that contentiousness is not going to go away during the Civil War.

And so there's a lot of people all across the country getting access to the same news.

There's also the fact that the penny press becomes a reality in the 1830s, first with Benjamin Day's New York Sun.

And newspapers become broadly affordable, and their content, which used to only appeal to sort of the political and merchant elites of American society, ends up becoming more mass consumable.

And I would be bereft not to mention that when we get into the 1850s, the political tension in the country with things like the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott decision in 57, and then John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.

And so there's a lot of people all across the country getting access to the same news.

There's also the fact that the penny press becomes a reality in the 1830s, first with Benjamin Day's New York Sun.

And newspapers become broadly affordable, and their content, which used to only appeal to sort of the political and merchant elites of American society, ends up becoming more mass consumable.

And I would be bereft not to mention that when we get into the 1850s, the political tension in the country with things like the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott decision in 57, and then John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, etc.