| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

William G. Jordan. Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. 241. Cloth $39.95, paper $18.95.

The printed press is among the most neglected subjects in American history, even as it often provides the primary sources on which that history rests. African-American newspapers share that fate, as they, too, are reliably and repeatedly mined by those in search of the history of black culture and politics but ignored in broader treatments of American institutions. 1

Casting into this void is William G. Jordan's book, a useful descriptive account of the African-American press during the World War I era. Written in a clear and lucid manner, this book links the black press of the early twentieth century with its predecessors in antislavery and post-Reconstruction eras. The bulk of the book, however, is a detailed rendering of the tensions and conflicts that black newspapers faced when United States entry into war led them and their readers to debate why black people should remain "loyal to a flawed nation." . . .

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