The Universalist (Chicago [Ill.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
280 issues from 1886 to 1897, published in Cincinnati, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Chicago Universalist was a religious newspaper published near the end of the nineteenth century, a century when religious newspapers proliferated alongside the denominations they documented. Denominationalism was a distinctive feature of the nineteenth-century American religious landscape, and European observers frequently remarked upon it, usually attributing the phenomenon to religious disestablishment. Denominationalism radically decentralized and diversified religious life, creating a need for current information about denominations, especially since so many of these denominations were new and rapidly changing. The religious newspaper was one response to this need, and its period of fastest growth roughly coincided with the so-called “Second Great Awakening.” During this period, the religious newspapers even competed with secular newspapers by printing secular as well as religious news. The religious newspaper’s role as a publisher of secular news declined in the 1830s, possibly due to the emergence of inexpensive daily newspapers that were written in a lively, often sensational style, while religious newspapers remained important sources of information throughout the century.
The Universalist was published weekly by the Universalist denomination. Central to Universalism was a belief in universal human salvation. The Universalists’ optimistic rejection of Calvinist rigidity was the foundation for their many social crusades. During the Universalist‘s period of…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cincinnati, Ohio, 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