Vol. 1-10

Vol. 1 Issue 1, Summer 1983

Finding community in nineteenth-century suffrage periodicals
By Linda Steiner

American correspondents during World War II
By Mary S. Mander

A wider niche for Westbrook Pegler
By Frank Krompak

First ladies and the press: Bess Truman to Lady Bird Johnson
By Lewis Gould

A “front page girl” covers the Lindbergh kidnaping: An ethical dilemma
By Maurine Beasley

Suffrage as news: Ten dailies’ coverage of the Nineteenth Amendment
By Anne Messerly Cooper

Vol. 1 Issue 2, Winter 1984

The power in the image: Professionalism and the communications revolution
By Douglas Birkhead

From orthodoxy to reform: Assimilation and the Jewish0English press of mid-ninteenth century America
By Kathryn T. Theus

The journalist as storyteller: An interdisciplinary perespective
By Steve M. Barkin

The Baltimore Afro-American and the election campaigns of FDR
By J. William Snorgrass

The emerging American newspaper: Discovering the home front
By Donald R. Avery

Alex Posey: Creek indian editor/humorist/poet
By Sam G. Riley

Research in broadcasting: An overview of major resource centers
By Michael Murray

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Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1985

The Muckraking Books of Pearson, Allen, andAnderson
By Douglas A. Anderson

A Newspaper Analysis of the John Brown Raid
By Lloyd Chiasson

The “Blue Book” and Charles Siepmann — as Reported in Broadcasting Magazine
By Dave Berkman

The Absence of the First Amendment in Schenck v. United States: A Reexamination
By Jeremy Cohen

Ke Alaka’i: The Leadership Role of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in the Hawaiian Statehood Movement
By Alf Pratte

The Professional Communicator as a Symbolic Figure
By John J. Pauly

Vol. 2, Issue 2, 1985

The Image of the Advertising Practitioner as Presented in the Mass Media, 1900-1972
By Lynda M. Maddox and Eric J. Zanot

American Women In Magazine Cartoons
By Foy Lisenby

The Rival Sporting Weeklies of William T. Porter and Thomas Bangs Thorpe
By David C. Estes

Unitypo: The ITU’s Editor and Publisher
By R. Thomas Berner

Julian Ralph: Forgotten Master of Descriptive Detail
By Thomas Connery

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Vol. 3, Issue 1, 1986

Francis Warrington Dawson: The New South Revisited
By E. Culpepper Clark

Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow and Other Newspaper Tales About the Chicago Fire of 1871
By Fred Fedler

Media Coverage of a Silent Partner: Mamie Eisenhower as First Lady
By Maurine Beasley and Paul Belgrade

Conservation, Community Economics, and Newspapering: The Seattle Press and the Forest Reserves Controversy of 1897
By Stephen E. Ponder

Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1986

The Pittsburgh Courier’s Double V Campaign in 1942
By Patrick S. Washburn

Hometown Radio in 1 942: The Role of Local Stations During the First Year of Total War
By E. Albert Moffett

The Jewish Contribution to American Journalism
By Stephen J. Whitfield

Vol. 3, Issue 3, 1986

Woman Suffrage Papers of the West, 1869-1914
By Sherilyn Cox Bennion

William Hard as Progressive Journalist
By Ron Marmarelli

Historians and the American Press, 1900-1945: Working Profession or Big Business?
By Wm. David Sloan

The Advertisers’ War to Verify Newspaper Circulation, 1870-1914
By Ted Curtis Smythe

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 1986

Legal Advocacy and the First Amendment: Elisha Hanson’s Attempt to Create First Amendment Protection for the Business of the Press
By Timothy W. Gleason

Fritz Goro: Emigre Photojournalist
By C. Zoe Smith

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Vol. 4, Issue 1, 1987

The Growing Interaction of the Federal Bureaucracy and the Press: The Case of a Postal Rule, 1879-1917
By Richard B. Kielbowicz

James Fenimore Cooper and the Law of Libel in New York
By Richard Scheidenhelm

The Exchange System and the Development of American Politics in the 1820s
By Robert K. Stewart

Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1987 (Convention Papers Issue)

The Resurrection of the Prophet: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the News Weeklies
By Richard Lentz

The Party Press and Freedom of the Press, 1798-1808
By Wm. David Sloan

Producers of the “Popular Engine”: New England’s Revolutionary Newspaper Printers
By Carol Sue Humphrey

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 1987

The Image of Journalism in American Poetry
By Howard Good

When World Views Collide: Journalists and the Great Monkey Trial
By Marvin N. Olasky

Presidential Health Reporting: The Eisenhower Watershed
By Myron K. Jordan

Vol. 4, Issue 4, 1987

Charles Key Bruce: Early Journalist in India
By Basil L. Crapster

Fictional Techniques in the Journalism of David Graham Phillips
By Robert Miraldi

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Vol. 5, Issue 1, Winter 1988

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the “Day of Infamy”
By Alf Pratte

The Shaping of a Southern Opinion Leader: Ralph McGill and Freedom of Information
By Leonard Ray Teel

Historiographical Essay
Historians and the American Frontier Press
By William E. Huntzicker

Vol. 5, Issue 2, Spring 1988

“Little Ado About Something”: Philadelphia Newspapers and the Constitutional Convention
By Carol Sue Humphrey

Advertisements Masquerading as News In Turn-of-the-Century American Periodicals
By Linda Lawson

Scurrility and the Party Press, 1789-1816
By Wm. David Sloan

Vol. 5, Issue 3, Summer 1988

“A Brave and Beautiful City”: Henry Grady’s New South
By Harold E. Davis

Benjamin Franklin’s Printing Network
By Ralph Frasca

Freedom of the Press, 1690-1801 : Libertarian or Limited?
By Wm. David Sloan and Thomas A. Schwartz

Vol. 5, Issue 4, Autumn 1988

The Dubious Heritage of Media Ethics: Cause-and-Effect Criticism in the 1890s
By John P. Ferre

Franklin Roosevelt, His Administration, and the Communications Act of 1934
By Robert W. McChesney

Historiographical Essay
Historians and Freedom of the Press Since 1800
By Timothy W. Gleason

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Vol. 6, Issue 1, Winter 1989

The Evangelical Origins of the Muckrakers
By Bruce J. Evensen

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Campaign Against Middle Commercials
By Michael D. Murray

Historiographical Essay
Journalism Historians and Religion
By Marvin Olasky

Vol. 6, Issue 2, Spring 1989

A Last Hurrah for the Frontier Press
By V. Delbert Reed

George Seldes and the Winter Soldier Brigade: The Press Criticism of In Fact, 1940-1950
By Pamela A. Brown

“Purse and Pen”: Party-Press Relationships, 1789-1816
By Wm. David Sloan

Vol. 6, Issue 3, Summer 1989

Joseph Pulitzer II and the European War, 1938-1945
By Daniel W. Pfaff

W.A. Scott and the Atlanta World
By Leonard Ray Teel

Historiographical Essay
The Civil War Press: Promoter of Unity or Neutral Reporter?
By Thomas Andrew Hughes

Vol. 6, Issue 4, Fall 1989

Magazine Publishing and Popular Science after World War II: Scientific American and Science Illustrated Battle to Produce a New Popular Scientific Magazine
By Bruce V. Lewenstein

Reconstruction Journalism: The Hays-Hawley Letter—A Report on Political Conditions in the South Touches Off a Nationwide Controversy
By William Warren Rogers, Jr.

Historiographical Essay
The Revolutionary Press: Source of Unity or Division? What Role Did the Newspaper Press Play in the Colonies’ Fight for Independence?
By Carol Sue Humphrey

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Vol. 7, Issue 1, Winter 1990

Richard Harding Davis and the Boer War: The British and Boers Rehearse for World War I While Davis Watches.
By John C. Bromley

The Place of Biography in the History of News Women: What Role Should Biographical Research Play in Writing the History of Women Journalists?
By Catherine C. Mitchell

Bibliography Scholarship on Women Working in Journalism
Articles and Books on Women Journalists, Categorized by Gerda Lerner’s Stages of Feminist History.
By Catherine C. Mitchell

Historiographical Essay
Women in Journalism: Contributors to Male Experience or Voices of Feminine Expression? Historians of Women Journalists Seek to Move Beyond the “Great Women” Approach
By Maurine H. Beasley

Vol. 7, Issue 2, Spring 1990

Unity, Not Absorption: Robert Lyon and the Asmonean—A Jewish Weekly Newspaper in New York City Makes a Home for Its Immigrant Readers
By Barbara Straus Reed

Theodore Roosevelt: Public Relations Pioneer — The First Master of the Media Event, the News Leak, the Trial Balloon, and the Sound Bite
By Rodger Streitmatter

Vol. 7, Issue 3, Summer 1990

“Such Things Can Only Happen in America”: British Press Response to the Scopes Trial — The “Monkeyville” Trial As Evidence of the Degradation of Modern Culture
By Dean Rapp

CBS World News Roundup: Setting the Stage for the Next Half Century — CBS Radio Gathers Its Correspondents from across Europe for a Momentous Broadcast
By Donald G. Godfrey

Vol. 7, Issue 4, Fall 1990

Reconsidering James Carey: On Carey’s Attempt to Conceptualize Technology as a Form of Culture
By Carolyn Marvin

Oppositionalizing Carey: On Carey’s Critique of Monopolies of Power and Monopolies of Knowledge
By Jerilyn S. McIntyre

Culture, Communication, and Carey: On Carey’s Quest for a Moral Discourse in Communication Studies
By Michael Schudson

Technology As a Totem for Culture: On Americans’ Use of High Technology As a Model for Social Order
By James W. Carey

Bibliography of Works by James W. Carey: Books, Articles, and Reviews, 1960-1990
Compiled with the help of Barbara Buckley

Historiographical Essay
Telling the Story of Story: The Importance of Narrative Theory for the Study of Journalism History
By Jack Lule

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Vol. 8, Issue 1, Winter 1991

The Search for Strategic Silence: How Journalism Historians Can Learn to Read What the Press Does Not Print
By Richard Lentz

Visual Silences: What Photography Chooses Not to Show Us
By Kent Brecheen-Kirkton

Ellipsis and Eclipse As Indicators of Bias: A Case Study of How the Miami Herald Covers Cuban Issues.
By Fran R. Matera

Interview
The End of an Era at CBS: Bill Leonard Talks about the Making and Unmaking of CBS Television News
By Michael D. Murray

Vol. 8, Issue 2 & 3, Spring-Summer 1991

The African-American Press and the Campaign for a Federal Antilynching Law, 1933-34: Using “Race News” to Shape Public Opinion
By Leonard Ray Teel

The New England Courant: Voice of Anglicanism — Reassessing James Franklin’s Role in the History of Press Freedom
By Wm. David Sloan

H.W. Massingham, Radical Journalism, and the South African Racial Imperative, 1906-1910: Debating the Future of Freedom in South Africa
By James D. Startt

Press Policy of the U.S. Military Government in Korea: Testing the Limits of Libertarian Press Theory
By Kyo Ho Youm

Vol. 8, Issue 4, Fall 1991

From Suspension to Subvention: The Southern Press during Reconstruction, 1863-1870 — How Southern Newspapers Resisted the Military Occupation.
By Donna L. Dickerson

The Conspiracy of Silence: Media Coverage of Syphihs, 1906-1941 — How the Press Reluctantly Enlisted in a Major Health Campaign
By Timothy Walters and Lynne Masel Walters

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Vol. 9, Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1992

Stephen Crane’s New York City Journalism and the Oft-Told Tale — Literary Journalism ii\ the Daily Newspaper
By Michael Robertson

“Trifling with Edge Tools”: Henry Adams’s Letters to the New York Times,
1861-62 — Reporting on Diplomacy from the Inside
By John C. Bromley

Tough Talk and Bad News: Satire and the New York Herald,1835-1860 — James Gordon Bennett as a Neoclassicist.
By Gary L. Whitby

James Agee’s Documentary Expression: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men as Journalism — A Second Look at a Classic Work of Journalism
Edna Boone Johnson and Mary Helen Brown

In the Wake of the News: The Beginnings of a Sports Column, by HEK — Sportswriting as a Literary Art
By Alfred Lawrence Lorenz

Historiographical Essay
Re-Viewing Rock Writing: The Origins of Popular Music Criticism Telling the Story of Rock ‘n’ Roll
By Steve Jones

Vol. 9, Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1992

Hojas Volantes: The Beginning of Print Journalism in the Americas
By Victoria Goff

Greater Distance = Declining Interest: Massachusetts Printers and Protections for a Free Press, 1783-1791
By Carol Sue Humphrey

“To Avoid the Coming Storm”: Hezekiah Niles’ Weekly Register as a Voice of North-South Moderation, 1811-1836
By Bill Kovarik

Searching for the Social Construction of Radio
By Tom Volek

“Up in the Air”: Re-considering the Cultural Origins of Broadcasting and the Myth of Entertainment During the 1920s
By Elaine Prostak Berland

Books and Radio: Culture and Technology in the 1920s and 1930s
By Ann Haugland

New York City’s Municipal Broadcasting Experiment: WNYC, 1922-1940
By Alan G. Stavitsky

The Social Origins of Broadcasting: Canada, 1919-1945
By David Spencer

Origins, Paradigms, and Topographies Methodological Considerations Regarding Area Studies and Broadcast Histories
By James Schwoch

Ronald Reagan and Freedom of Expression: From Liberal to Industry Spokesman, 1945-1952
By Stephen Vaughn

Donna Allen and the Women’s Institute: A Feminist Perspective on the First Amendment
By Maurine H. Beasley

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Vol. 10, Issue 1-2, Winter-Spring 1993

Sunday Newspapers and the Decline of Protestant Authority in the United States: Ministers Attempt to Defend the Sabbath
By John Ferre

Newsroom Managers and Workers: The Specialization of Editing Work — The Emergence of Newsroom Castes
By William S. Solomon

The Stagnation and Decline of Partisan Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century America — Manton Marble and the New York World
By Jeffrey Rutenbeck

“This Paper Is Owned by Many Thousands of Workingmen and Women”: Contradictions of a Socialist Daily — The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Daily Socialist
By Jon Bekken

The Economics and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers: The Search for Markets in Detroit, 1865-1900
By Richard L. Kaplan

Science Versus Size: “Science” as a Keyword in the Newspaper Debate over Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting — Class Warfare in the Sports Pages.
By Dennis Gildea

Vol. 10, Issue 3-4, Summer-Fall 1993
A special AJHA report: Doctoral Education in Media History

David Cassady: Introduction

William David Sloan: “Why Study Media History?”

Maurine Beasley and Douglas Ward: “What Should a Ph.D. Student in Media History Study?”

James Startt: “Historiography and the Media Historian”

David Nord: “A Diverse Field Needs a Diversity of Approaches”

Richard Kielbowicz: “On Making Connections With Outside Subfields”

Articles :

The Incorporation of Malcolm X
By Richard Lentz

Joseph Pulitzer as an American Hegelian
By Patricia Bradley

War as Monarchial Folly in the Early American Press
By Jeffery Smith