Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812

Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812

Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812

Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812

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Overview

Winner of the 2020 Baltimore History Prize, this is a gripping account of how a Federalist editor risked his life to defend his anti-war views.
 
With a bitterly divided nation plunged into the War of 1812, Alexander Hanson penned an anti-war editorial that provoked a violent standoff that crippled the city of Baltimore and left Hanson beaten within an inch of his life. This little-known episode in American history—complete with a midnight jailbreak, bloodthirsty mobs and unspeakable acts of torture—helped shape the course of war, the Federalist Party and the nation’s very notion of the freedom of the press. Josh Cutler’s history of the Mobtown Massacre offers a lesson in liberty that reverberates today.
 
“A compelling story that’s as timely today as it was two centuries ago.” —Congressman William R. Keating
 
“A remarkably vivid, engaging and very readable account of a brief but major event in Baltimore history . . . which reflected the sharp political divisiveness of the time at the start of the War of 1812, and had important implications for freedom of the press and the war itself.”—Charles Markell, board member, Baltimore City Historical Society
 
“A timely and scholarly examination of one man’s struggle for freedom of the press.”—Fred Dorsey, Howard County, MD historian
 
“Cutler’s book tells not only of politics of that era and the controversy of a war that ultimately led to the burning of the White House and the writing of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ by Francis Scott Key, but also how it challenged America’s devotion to a free press.” —The Baltimore Sun

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439666203
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 12/07/2021
Series: True Crime
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 227
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Josh S. Cutler is an attorney and state legislator representing the Sixth Plymouth District of Massachusetts, which includes the town of Hanson. Cutler is a graduate of Skidmore College (BA), Suffolk Law (JD) and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (MPP in environmental policy). He is also the author of "When the Press Really Was Under Attack: Alexander Hanson and the 1812 'Mobtown' Massacre," published by the New England Journal of History (Spring 2018).
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