A podcast of historic journalism for young writers, Byline uncovers fascinating stories from the printed past and examines the lives of forgotten reporters.
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 initiate...
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...
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 wor...
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...
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 guil...
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 bot...
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 w...
I said that whatever he would write for me, on what ever subject, at what ever time, I would accept without question or reservation, and put on the st...