Graphic news: how sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism

Introduction: Sensationalism and the Rise of Visual Journalism

"We Simply Illustrate": Sensationalizing Crime in the 1870s "Sporting" News

"Language More Effective than Words": Opium Den Illustrations and Anti-Chinese Violence in the 1880s

"A First-Class Attraction on Any Stage": Dramatizing the Ghost Dance and the Massacre at Wounded Knee

"A Song without Words": Anti-Lynching Imagery as Visual Protest in the 1890s Black Press

"Wanted to Save Her Honor": Sensationalizing the Provocation Defense in the Mid-1890s

Epilogue: Legacies of Visual Journalism and the Sensational Style.