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Vol. 30, Issue 1, Winter 2013
Special Section: Theorizing Journalism in Time
On the Explanatory and Political Uses of Journalism History
By Rodney Benson
Why Journalism History Matters to Journalism Studies
By John Nerone
Fourteen or Fifteen Generations: News as a Cultural Form and Journalism as a Historical Foundation
By Michael Schudson
Historical Mechanisms and Journalistic Change
By Tim P. Vos
Articles
“Practical Reporting”: Late Nineteenth-Century Journalistic Standards and Rule Breaking
By Randall S. Sumpter
Money or Nothing: Confederate Postal System Collapse during the Civil War
By John Nathan Anderson
Class and Social Status in the Lydia Pinkham Illustrated Ads: 1890-1900
By Elizabeth V. Burt
A Path Made of Words: The Journalistic Construction of the Appalachian Trail
By James Kates
Book Reviews
The Last King of the Sports Page: The Life and Career of Jim Murray, by Ted Geltner
Reviewed by Brian Carroll
Backstage Stories from My Life in Public Television, by Ron Hull
Reviewed by Eileen Wirth
Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938-1946, by Mordecai Lee
Reviewed by David Schreindl
Paper Route: Finding My Way to Precision Journalism, by Philip Meyer
Reviewed by Donna Lampkin Stephens
Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times, by Roy Reed
Reviewed by Chandra Clark
Digital Media Reviews
Archiving Early America
Reviewed by Carol Sue Humphrey
John Adams
Reviewed by Teresa Jo Styles
Mapping Revolutionary Boston: Exploring an Eighteenth-Century City on the Eve of Rebellion
Reviewed by David Copeland
Vol. 30, Issue 2, Spring 2013
Articles
News on the Air: The New York Herald, Newspapers, and Wireless Telegraphy, 1899-1917
By Noah Arceneaux
The Mexican Image through Southern Eyes: De Bow’s Review in the Era of Manifest Destiny
By Michael Fuhlhage
“Making Birth Control Respectable”: The Birth Control Review, 1917-1928
By Vanessa Murphree and Karla K. Gower
Shipping the Latest News across the Pacific in the 1870s: California’s News of the World
By Peter Putnis
Essay
“A Measure of Theory?”: Considering the Role of Theory in Media History
By Amber Roessner, Rick Popp, Brian Creech, and Fred Blevens
Book Reviews
Into the Fray: How NBC’s Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News, by Tom Mascaro
Reviewed by Mike Conway
“Muy Buenas Noches”: Mexico, Television, and the Cold War, by Celeste Gonzáles de Bustamante
Reviewed by Junita Darling
Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War, edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner
Reviewed by Kevin Grieves
Feminist Media History: Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere, by Maria DiCenzo, with Lucy Delap and Leila Ryan
Reviewed by Jane Marcellus
Digital Media Reviews
The American Colonists Library
Reviewed by Julie Hedgepeth Williams
Duke University Libraries Digital Collections
Reviewed by Berkley Hudson and Elizabeth A. Lance
The Rural West Initiative
Reviewed by John M. Coward
Vol. 30, Issue 3, Summer 2013
Essay
Go Big or Stay Home: Why Journalism Historians Matter to Understanding International Affairs
By Giovanna Dell’Orto
Articles
Breaking Bread, Not Bones: Printers’ Festivals and Professionalism in Antebellum America
By Frank E. Fee Jr.
From Haiti to Nat Turner: Racial Panic Discourse during the Nineteenth Century Partisan Press Era
By Brian Gabrial
Conflict in South Carolina’s Partisan Press of 1829
By Erika J. Pribanic-Smith
“One of the Most Crying Needs of the Present Time”: The Call for a Christian Daily Newspaper
By Ronald Rodgers
Book Reviews
Baldwin of the Times: Hanson W. Baldwin, A Military Journalist’s Life, 1903-1911, by Robert B. Davies
Reviewed by Russell J. Cook
Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence, by Maurine H. Beasley; Women in American Journalism: A New History, by Jan Whitt
Reviewed by Therese L. Lueck
Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception, by Brooke Kroeger
Reviewed by Michael Murray
Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism, by Christopher B. Daly
Reviewed by Erika J. Pribanic-Smith
Digital Media Reviews
Past Blast
Reviewed by Noah Arceneaux
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Reviewed by Teddy Champion
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Reviewed by Richard K. Popp
AJHA Oral History Project
An Interview with David Spencer
Conducted by Reed Smith
Vol. 30, Issue 4, Autumn 2013
Essay
The Presentist Media Landscape and the Practice of Doing History
By Victoria Smith Ekstrand
Articles
Explaining the Origins of the Advertising Agency
By Tim P. Vos
The Editorial Writer in Depression-Era Politics and Law: The St. Louis Star-Times’ Irving Brant
By Gerald L. Fetner
A Golden Opportunity? Edward Bernays and the Dilemma of Ethics
By Thomas H. Bivins
The Sinners and the Scapegoat: Public Reaction in the Press to Mae West’s Adam and Eve Skit
By Lori Amber Roessner and Matthew Broaddus
The Press as a Site of Political Conquest: Latvia, 1986-1991
By Janis Chakars
Book Reviews
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times, by Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani
Reviewed by Owen V. Johnson
American Journalism and International Relations: Foreign Correspondence from the Early Republic to the Digital Era, by Giovanna Dell’Orto
Reviewed by James D. Startt
Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting, by Beverly Deepe Keever
Reviewed by Gerd Horten
Scribblin’ for a Livin’: Mark Twain’s Pivotal Period in Buffalo, by Thomas J. Reigstad
Reviewed by Norma Fay Green
From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism, by Eileen M. Wirth
Reviewed by Sherilyn Cox Bennion
Digital Media Reviews
Perry-Casteñeda Library Map Collection
Reviewed by Michael Fuhlhage
The National Archives Experience – Digital Vaults
Reviewed by Janice Hume
Mississippi Blues Trail
Reviewed by Meredith Clark
100 Years of Black Film
Reviewed by Cheryl D. Jenkins