New York Tribune

The New-York Tribune was an American newspaper. It was founded by Horace Greeley as a Whig Party newspaper in April 1841. Between 1842 and 1866, the newspaper was called the New-York Daily Tribune. The tribune not only reported the news, it covered subjects such as politics, literary works, social reform and intellectual achievements. Greeley, through the Tribune, supported the beginnings of Republican Party.Adam-Max Tuchinsky, Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune: Civil War-era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009), pp. 11–12 In 1860 the Tribune supported Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States and during the Civil War. However, the paper opposed his reelection in 1864. For some time the paper had the largest circulation in the United States. The Tribune's editorials were widely read and helped shape national opinion. In 1924 it was merged with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune. It remained a major US daily newspaper until it ended publication in 1966.

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