About: Tony Pettinato / Project Manager and Editor
- Tony has worked at NewsBank the past 13 years, including six years as editor for the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. He is currently a project manager and editor in NewsBank’s consumer division. A bibliophile, Tony lives within 20 minutes of two dozen used-book stores.
Posts by Tony Pettinato / Project Manager and Editor:
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Tecumseh’s Dream Shattered: 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe,
07 Nov 2011
When reading accounts of the tragic conflict between whites and Native Americans, such as Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, one cannot help but wonder why the Indians did not see the whites as a common enemy and band together for their common safety and survival. Unfortunately for them, ancient tribal enmities seemed [...]
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Researching Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt in American (and African American) Newspapers,
31 Jan 2011
Whites throughout the American South were traumatized in the summer of 1831 by a bloody slave revolt led by Nat Turner, a man his fellow slaves called “The Prophet.” By all accounts, Turner was an intelligent but peculiar man. Although education for slaves was widely outlawed, he taught himself to read as a young child [...]
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Newspapers: “the rough draft of history”,
04 Oct 2010
In a recent article entitled “Who Said It First?” on the Web site Slate, Jack Shafer investigates who first coined the phrase “the first rough draft of history” to describe journalism. He thought it was the Washington Post’s former president and publisher, Philip L. Graham, until alerted by etymologist Barry Popik that the journalist Alan Barth [...]
