NILES, HEZEKIAH

1777–1839, American journalist, b. Jefferis's Ford, Pa. Editor (1805–11) of the Baltimore Evening Post and founder (1811) of Niles' Weekly Register, he was one of the most influential journalists of his day. Devoted primarily to politics, Niles' Weekly Register is considered an important source for the history of the period.

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books on: Niles Hezekiah  - 184 results

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Hezekiah Niles as an Economist
Book by Richard Gabriel Stone; Johns Hopkins Press, 1933
Subjects: Economics--United States--History, Niles, Hezekiah--1777-1839, United States--Economic Conditions
...York Convention, 82 . Nile, Hezekiah, 34 . Niles, Ann, 38 ; death of, 48...Niles, Henry Clay, 49 . Niles, Hezekiah, accident to, 51 , 52 ; accusations...States, 95 - 97 ; Will of, 55 . Niles, Hezekiah, Sr., 34 , 35 , 106 . Niles...
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American Mass-Market Magazines
Book by Alan Nourie, Barbara Nourie; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: American Periodicals--History
Niles, Hezekiah. Chronicles of the American Revolution...T. Vaughan. Orginally compiled by Hezekiah Niles as Principles and Acts of the Revolution...Dunlap, 1965. Schmidt, Philip R. Hezekiah Niles and American Economic Nationalism...
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Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party
Book by Robert V. Remini; Columbia University Press, 1959
Subjects: Van Buren, Martin--1782-1862
...39 , 41 , 64 , 192 Nicholas, P. N., 120 Niles, Hezekiah editor of Niles Weekly Register , activities as protectionist...176 Niles Weekly Register , 49 , 57 ; see also Niles, Hezekiah Noah, Mordecai M., 28 , 158 , 191 Noncommittalism...
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Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England
Book by David Richard Kasserman; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986
Subjects: Avery, Ephraim K.--D. 1869--Trials, Litigation, Etc, Cornell, Sarah Maria--1802-1832, Trials (Murder)--Rhode Island--Newport, Working Class--Massachusetts--Fall River--History
...I. William and J. H. Barber, eds. Niles Hezekiah "General Convention of Agriculturalists...Weekly Register 3d ser., 8:388-96. Niles Register 1833 Newspaper. Baltimore. Hezekiah Niles, ed. Norris Thomas F. 1833 To the Public...
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Debating the Issues in the Antebellum Press: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 To 1860
Book by David A. Copeland; Greenwood Press, 2003
Subjects: United States--History--1783-1865--Sources
...Times, 109, 380, 397, 408-9 Niles, Hezekiah, 7; dispute with Thomas Ritchie...NilesNationalRegz;ster, 185 Niles TVeekl,y Register, 7, 87...98, 143-44; dispute with Hezekiah Niles, 151-52, 15?-58 Rivington...
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journal articles on: Niles Hezekiah  - 13 results

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Special Interest Protectionism and the Antebellum Woolen Textile Industry: A Contemporary Issue in a Historical Context
Journal article by Grant D. Forsyth; The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 65, 2006
Subjects: Protectionism--Analysis, Textile industry--History, United States economic conditions--Political aspects, United States. Congress. House--Trade policy
...the help of nationally known publishers like Hezekiah Niles and Mathew Carey and local newspapers, the...800). Given this background, the role of Hezekiah Niles is considered first. Hezekiah Niles, a fervent supporter of the protective tariff...
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The Southern Response to British Abolitionism: The Maturation of Proslavery Apologetics
Journal article by Edward B. Rugemer; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Abolition of slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, Hammond, James H.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Irish (European people)--Crimes against, Irish--Crimes against, Slavery--Ethical aspects, Slavery--Speeches, lectures and essays, Southern United States--History, United Kingdom--Public opinion
...South before 1828 (New York, 1890), 104. Niles Weekly Register, edited by Hezekiah Niles, was a newsmagazine with an economic focus...national significance see Norval Neil Luxon, Niles Weekly Register: News Magazine of the Nineteenth...
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The Passive-Aggressive Virtues: Cohens V. Virginia and the Problematic Establishment of Judicial Power
Journal article by Mark A. Graber; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 12, 1995
Subjects: Cohens v. Virginia--19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 264 (1821), Judicial activism--Analysis, Political questions and judicial power--Analysis
...lotteries was well founded. The Niles Register published a letter written...of legislation."(42) Although Hezekiah Niles purported not to endorse the letters content,(43) his comment in his Niles Register recognized that the issues...
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Independence Day, 1835: The John A. Murrell Conspiracy and the Lynching of the Vicksburg Gamblers in Literature
Journal article by Thomas Ruys Smith; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2005
Subjects: Antebellum period, 1820-1861--Political aspects, Antebellum period, 1820-1861--Social aspects, Cultural criticism--1835 AD, Vigilantes--History, Vigilantes--Political aspects, Vigilantes--Social aspects
...make their escape with all haste" (Niles" Weekly Register, August 8, 1835...craving appetite for plunder" (Niles" Weekly Register, August 8, 1835...seen as representative of them. Hezekiah Niles, assessing the prevalence of extra...
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Washington Irving's West
Journal article by James P. Ronda; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004
Subjects: American West (Historical region)--Media coverage, American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, American--Works, Irving, Washington--Criticism and interpretation, Irving, Washington--Works
...expansion of the American republic than Niles Weekly Register. The brainchild of Baltimore printer Hezekiah Niles, the Weekly Register first appeared in September 1811 and became Niles National Register in 1837. The Register...
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magazine articles on: Niles Hezekiah  - 2 results

 
 
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Speakers Who Imposed Their Will on the House
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, May 27, 1996
Subjects: Clay, Henry--Political activity, Legislators--History, Reed, Thomas Brackett--Political activity, United States. Congress. House--Speaker, United States. Congress--History
...called the "American System." He didnt fill in the details, leaving that to such admirers as Hezekiah Niles, editor of the widely read Niles Weekly Register. The American System resembles Gingrichs "Contract With America" as a plan intended...
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The Melting Pot, Part 2 - America's Cultural-Institutional Core
Magazine article by Anne Wortham; World and I, Vol. 16, November 2001
Subjects: Americanization--Social aspects, Assimilation (Sociology)--Social aspects, Assimilation--Social aspects, Social policy--Analysis, Social values--Analysis
...10.Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 31. 11.John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 13 Feb. 1818, Works of John Adams, vol. 10 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1850--56), 288. 12.E...


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encyclopedia articles on: Niles Hezekiah  - 1 result

 
 
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Niles, Hezekiah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NILES, HEZEKIAH 1777 1839, American journalist, b. Jefferiss...Baltimore Evening Post and founder (1811) of Niles Weekly Register, he was one of the most...his day. Devoted primarily to politics, Niles Weekly Register is considered an important...


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