Byline: Old News Is Good News

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A podcast of historic journalism for young writers, Byline uncovers fascinating stories from the printed past and examines the lives of forgotten reporters.

  1. 12/06/2019

    Telegraph Talk and Talkers

    In its written form telegraphese, or "Morse," as it is called in the vernacular, is rarely seen. Yet as a vehicle of expression it is, to the initiated, as harmonious, subtle, and fascinating as the language of music itself.

  2. 11/15/2019

    Disbanding the Union Army, part 2

    As soon as the order to disband the volunteers had gone forth, the North had begun to ask itself what they were going to do with the million men about to inundate them.

  3. 11/01/2019

    Disbanding the Union Army, part 1

    Great numbers of them had gone into the army boys and had been made men by danger and suffering.

  4. 10/18/2019

    Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 2

    The disbanded army faced their hard situation like the brave men they were, and joined patiently in one of the gravest tasks in the history of the world—the Reconstruction of the South.

  5. 10/04/2019

    Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 1

    The worst of the ordeal of these men, who had begun to disband in this haphazard way, was not getting home, it was what they found when they got there.

  6. 09/20/2019

    My Life in the Underworld, part 3

    Here was I, under sentence, after a farce of a trial wherein I was denied not only my right of trial by jury, but my right to plead guilty or not guilty.

  7. 12/21/2018

    My Life in the Underworld, Part 2

    I am now in a precarious position, riding the ends of the down-curving roofs of two cars at the same time. With a quick, tense movement I transfer both legs to the curve of one roof and both hands to the curve of the other roof

  8. 12/07/2018

    My Life in the Underworld, part 1

    I have often thought that to this training of my tramp days is due much of my success as a story-writer. In order to get the food whereby I lived, I was compelled to tell tales that rang true.

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A podcast of historic journalism for young writers, Byline uncovers fascinating stories from the printed past and examines the lives of forgotten reporters.

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