Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,125 issues from 1868 to 1875, published in Nashville, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.
By the mid 1850s, Nashville was a center of publishing with at least five daily newspapers. The Nashville Union and American was formed in May 1853 by the merger of the Nashville American and the Nashville Union, both Democratic Party papers. First established in 1835, the Nashville Union’s political support included state printing contracts for as long as the Democratic Party was in office. Part of its mission was to oppose Senator Hugh L. White’s efforts to succeed Andrew Jackson as president in 1836. The Nashville American was established in 1848. Staunchly Democratic, the paper referred to the Whigs as a “feeble remnant of abolitionism in the North.” In the merger announcement on May 17, 1853, the Nashville American assured readers that “it will be the constant aim of the consolidated journal to preserve the democratic party of Tennessee a unit for all the great purposes of its organization.” John L. Marling & Co. served as editor and proprietor of the new Nashville Union and American and was succeeded the following year by G.C. Torbett & Co. Subsequent publishers included E.G. Eastman & Co., J.O. Griffith & Co., F.C. Dunnington & Co., Jones, Wallace & Co., and Jones, Hays & Co.
Tennessee’s divided loyalties were manifest during the “Second Party System,” a period of intense political activity that followed the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828, as well as during the Civil War. The state’s division was evident too in the newspaper industry. An incident defining this…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress