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• Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• Philip Taft Labor History Prize
• Frank Luther Mott Research Award
• Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize
• Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize

 

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Crying the News

A History of America’s Newsboys

Crying the News offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the street level view of its most unshushable creation. It places newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character.

“Rescuing ‘newsies’ from the condescension of history with inventive curiosity and stunningly wide research, DiGirolamo has restored these crucial child laborers—boys and girls, white and black— to their central place in American cities.”—NANCY F. COTT, Harvard University

what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What were their lives like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values, and beliefs?

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vincent digirolamo author Crying the NewsVincent DiGirolamo is associate professor of history at Baruch College. He lives in East Setauket, New York…Learn More

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