Vol. 21
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Vol. 21, Issue 1, Winter 2004
Ignacio E. Lozano: The Mexican Exile Publisher Who Conquered San Antonio and Los Angeles
By Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Depression in “The Promised Land”: The Chicago Defender Discourages Migration, 1929-1940
By Felecia G. Jones & Joseph P. McKerns
Carl Sandburg: Reporting for the People
By Duane Stolzfus
Bridging the Russian Cultural Gap: Language and Culture Wars in the Creation of a Soviet Peasant Press
By Hugh D. Hudson
Vol. 21, Issue 2, Spring 2004
The Art of Propaganda: Charles Alston’s World War II Editorial Cartoons for the Office of War Information and the Black Press
By Harry Amana
Visions of Violence: A Cartoon Study of America and War
By David R. Spencer
Drawing Swords: War in American Editorial Cartoons
By Lucy Shelton Caswell
Vol. 21, Issue 3, Summer 2004
Insiders’ Stories: Coping with Newsroom Stress: An Historical Perspective
By Fred Fedler
Nellie Bly’s Forgotten Stunt: As the First Woman to Cover a Championship Prize Fight, She Claimed to Have Gained Rare Access to Jack Dempsey
By Mike Sowell
The Overlooked Legend: The Failure of the Media to Report on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
By Carol Sue Humphrey
“Black Power”: Public Relations and Social Change in the 1960s
By Vanessa D. Murphree
Vol. 21, Issue 4, Fall 2004
“The Creation of a Right Public Spirit”: The Hampton Institute’s Pioneering Use of Sponsored Films, 1912-1917
By Nickieann Feeler
Tapping into War: Leveraging World War I in the Drive for a Dry Nation
By Margot Opdycke Lamme
Democratic Morality and the Freedom Academy Debate: A Conflict About Institutionalizing Propaganda in America, 1954-1968
By Stacey Cone
Creating the Corporate Citizen: Mobil Oil’s Editorial-Advocacy Campaign in The New York Times to Advance the Right and Practice of Corporate Political Speech, 1970-80
By Robert L. Kerr
Vol. 22
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Vol. 22, Issue 1, Winter 2005
This Wicked World: Masculinities and the Portrayals of Sex, Crime, and Sports in the National Police Gazette, 1879-1906
By Guy Reel
Lisa Sergio’s “Column of the Air”: An Examination of the Gendered History of Radio (1940-1945)
By Stacy Spaulding
Breaking Baseball Barriers: The 1953-1954 Negro League and Expansion of Women’s Public Roles
By Tracy Everbach
To Theorize or Not To Theorize
By David R. Spencer
“Scrupulous Integrity and Moderation”: The First International Organization for Journalists and the Promotion of Professional Behavior, 1894-1914
By Ulf Jonas Bjork
Re-Constructing Media History
By Eugenia M. Palmegaino
Vol. 22, Issue 2, Spring 2005
An American Journalist in the Role of Partisan—Dickey Chapelle’s Coverage of the Algerian War
By Sheila Webb
‘Bo’s’n’s Whistle’: Representing “Rosie the Riveter” on the Job
By Jane Marcellus
“The Soldier Speaks”: ‘Yank’ Coverage of Women and Wartime Work
By Barbara Friedman
The Grudging Emergence of American Journalism’s Classic Editorial: New Details About “Is There A Santa Claus?”
By W. Joseph Campbell
An Historical Analysis of Journalists’ Attitudes Toward Advertisers and Advertising’s Influence
By Denise E. DeLorme & Fred Fedler
How To Find Topics Worth Studying
By William David Sloan
Vol. 22, Issue 3, Summer 2005
Reconnecting With the Body Politic: Toward Disconnecting Muckrakers and Public Journalists
By Frank E. Fee
Creating the Kitchen Patriot: Media Promotion of Food Rationing and Nutrition Campaigns on the American Home Front During World War II
By Mei-Ling Yang
Covering a Two-Front War: Three African American Correspondents During World War II
By Jinx Coleman Broussard & John Maxwell Hamilton
Building Resentment: How the Alabama Press Prepared the Ground for New York Times v. Sullivan
By Doug Cumming
The Making of a Good Reviewer
By Gerald J. Baldasty
Vol. 22, Issue 4, Fall 2005
A Missing Link in the History of American War Correspondents: James Morgan Bradford and “The Time Piece” of St. Francisville, Louisiana
By Karen M. Rowley & John Maxwell Hamilton
From Barbarian Farmers to Yeoman Consumers: Curtis Publishing Company and the Search for Rural America, 1910-1930
By Douglas B. Ward
The Chilling Effect of Politics: CBS News and Documentaries During the Fin-Syn Debate in the Reagan Years
By Thomas A. Mascaro
Opposite Extremes: How Two Editors Portrayed a Civil War Atrocity
By Sonny Rhodes
Fight to Disarm His Life’s Work, Henry Ford Vows
By Charles N. Wheeler
A Digital Camera as a Research Tool
By Douglas B. Ward
Vol. 23
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Vol. 23, Issue 1, Winter 2006
The (Oregon) Advocate: Boosting the Race and Portland, Too
By Kimberley Mangun
Everyman His Own Historian—Not! A Defense of Our Profession—And a Plea for its Future
By Michael S. Sweeney
Island Empire: Discourse on U.S. Imperialism in “Century,” “Cosmopolitan,” “McClure’s”—1893-1900
By James Landers
Menopause: Milestone or Misery? A Look at Media Messages to Our Mothers and Grandmothers
By Marlene Cimons
Developing a Personal Style: Janet Flanner’s Literary Journalism
By Ann Thorne
In a Heartbeat
By Jim Martin
Vol. 23, Issue 2, Spring 2006
A Sports Journalism Bibliography
By Dave Kaszuba
From the Negro News Page to the Sports Page: Mary Garber’s Influence on the Newspapers of Winston-Salem, N.C.
By Lynn Klyde-Silverstein
From Fraternity to Fracture: Black Press Coverage of and Involvement in Negro League Baseball in the 1920s
By Brian Carroll
Bringing Women to the Sports Pages: Margaret Goss and the 1920s
By Dave Kaszuba
“Sports Illustrated”’s African American Athlete Series as Socially Responsible Journalism
By Reed Smith
Vol. 23, Issue 3, Summer 2006
These Working Wives: Representation of the “Two-Job” Woman Between the World Wars
By Jane Marcellus
C. F. Richardson and the Houston Informer’s Fight for Racial Equality in the 1920s
By Mary M. Cronin
In Their Own Backyard: Local Press Coverage of the Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Murders
By Laura Richardson Walton
Harvey O’Higgins and “The Daily German Lie”
By Michael S. Sweeney
“A Dozen Best”: Top Books on Black Newspaper History
By Patrick S. Washburn
Vol. 23, Issue 4, Fall 2006
Images of Brutality: The Portrayal of U.S. Racial Violence in News Photographs Published Overseas (1957-1963)
By Carol B. Schwalbe
Libel, Freedom of the Press, and the “New Yorker”
By Kathy Roberts Forde
A Pathfinding Radio Documentary Series: Norman Corwin’s “One World Flight”
By Matthew C. Ehrlich
Glittering Dust, Dormant Treasure: Press, Public Memory and Georgia’s “Forgotten” Gold Rush
By Janice Hume & Noah Arceneaux
“A Dozen Best”: Top Books on the History of Media and Religion
By John P. Ferré
Vol. 24
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Vol. 24, Issue 1, Winter 2007
Before the Bloggers: The Upstart News Technology of Television at the 1948 Political Conventions
By Mike Conway
From Her Own Point of View: Rediscovering Rose Wilder Lane, Literary Journalist
By Amy Mattson Lauters
Were Those the Days? Revisiting the Pulitzer-winning Efforts of Community Newspapers in the 1970s
By John Hatcher
Subterranean Days of Rage: How Magazine Letters to the Editor in 1952 Foretold a Generation of Revolution
By Brian Thornton
“A Dozen Best”: Top Biographies and Memoirs of Women in Print Journalism History
By Linda Lumsden
Vol. 24, Issue 2, Spring 2007
Betty Werlein Carter, A Writer in Her Own Regard
By Rebekah Ray
They Had a Satellite and They Knew How to Use It: How Donna Allen Led Women to the Forefront of the Technological Revolution in Communication
By Danna Walker
That is Good to Think of These Days: The Campaign by Hearst Newspapers to Promote Addition of “Under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance
By Ronald Bishop
E. H. Heinrichs: Profile of a Founding Practitioner
By Tim Ziaukas
Media Coverage and a Federal Grand Jury: Publication of the Secret Watergate Transcripts (1973)
By Mark Feldstein
“A Dozen Best”: Top Books on the Civil War Press
By Debra Reddin Van Tuyll
Vol. 24, Issue 3, Summer 2007
Cattle Barons and Ink Slingers: How Cow Country Journalists Created A Great American Myth
By Ross F. Collins
Fighting for Access: ABC’s 1965-66 Feud with NASA
By Dale L. Cressman
“News is a Weapon”: Domestic Radio Propaganda and Broadcast Journalism in America, 1939-1944
By Michael J. Socolow
Outside the Prickly Nest: Revisiting Doris Fleischman
By Margot Opdycke Lamme
Colonial Discourse and the Writings of Katherine Mayo
By Christina A. Joseph & Anandam P. Kavoori
Anarchy Meets Feminism: A Gender Analysis of Emma Goldman’s “Mother Earth,” 1906-1917
By Linda L. Lumsden
“A Dozen Best”: Ten Best War Correspondents’ Memoirs
By Michael S. Sweeney
Vol. 24, Issue 4, Fall 2007
Radio and Revolution in El Salvador: Building a Community of Listeners in the Midst of Civil War 1981-1992
By Juanita Darling
“BABY—BEER—BULLETS!!!” British Perceptions of American Journalism in the Nineteenth Century
By E.M. Palmegiano
Manipulation of the Media: Indiscretions, Misrepresentations and Fleet Sightings
By David W. London
Journalism Education in a Global Context: The Center for International Media Education, 1997-2007
By Leonard Ray Teel
Radical Labor, Racism, and the Preservation of Hegemony in Ogden, Territorial Utah, 1885-1886
By Andrew Taylor Kirk
Selling the Shortwaves: Commercial Broadcasting to Latin America and the Limits of the “American System”
By Robert A. Rabe
The Chile Solidarity Movement and Its Media: An Alternative Take on the Allende and Pinochet Years
By Victoria Goff
“A Dozen Best”: A Brief Examination of Canadian Journalism and Media History
By David Spencer
Vol. 25
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Vol. 25, Issue 1, Winter 2008
An Interview with Wm. David Sloan, New Orleans, August 6, 1999
By Ford Risley & Reed Smith
Breaking the Copper Collar: Press Freedom, Professionalization and the History of Montana Journalism
By John T. McNay
Two Tales of One City: How Cultural Perspective Influenced the Framing of a Pre-Civil Rights Story in Dallas
By Camille Kraeplin
Journalism and the Perfect Heat Wave: Assessing the Reportage of North America’s Worst Heat Wave, July-August 1936
By Phillip J. Hutchison
Framing Two Enemies in Mass Media: A Content Analysis of U.S. Government Influence in American Film during World War II.
By Thomas B. Christie & Andrew M. Clark
A Woman’s Place: Defiance and Obedience—Newspaper Stories about Women during the Trial of John Brown
By Brian Gabrial
“A Dozen Best”: Public Relations History
By Margot Opdycke Lamme
Vol. 25, Issue 2, Spring 2008
When Police Dogs Attacked: Iconic News Photographs and Construction of History, Mythology, and Political Discourse
By Meg Spratt
The Bay Bridge Metonymy: How Maryland Newspapers Interpreted the Opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
By David W. Guth
From Cheesecake to Chief: Newspaper Editors’ Slow Acceptance of Women
By Norman P. Lewis
Mission Accomplished: Margaret Sanger and The National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, 1929-1937
By Vanessa Murphree & Karla K. Gower
“A Dozen Best” Sports Journalism
By Dave Kaszuba
Vol. 25, Issue 3, Summer 2008
Rekindling the Fire: The Compromise that Initiated the Formal Integration of Daily Newspaper Newsrooms
By Gwyneth Mellinger
The U.S. “Information Bulletin” and Mixed Signals in the Democracy Lessons for Postwar Germany
By Kevin Grieves
Boosting the Bottom Line: Beatrice Morrow Cannady’s Tactics to Promote “The Advocate”, 1923-1933
By Kimberley Mangun
From Reporting Sleuth to Pioneer in Media Accountability: The Career of the “New York World’s” Isaac D. White
By Neil Nemeth
“A Dozen Best”: Top Books on Journalism and the Civil Rights Era
By Norman P. Lewis
Vol. 25, Issue 4, Fall 2008
Oral History Project: An Interview with Maurine Beasley
By Ford Risley & Reed Smith
Online Citations in History Journals: Current Practice and Views from Journal Editors
By Michael Bugeja, Daniela V. Dimitrova & Hyehyun Hong
Haunted by the Babe: Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick’s Columns about Babe Ruth
By John Carvalho & Raymond Ankney
Strikebusting in St. Petersburg: Nelson Poynter’s Postwar Assault on Union Printers
By James F. Tracy
“Collier’s” Criticism of the Press During the Norman Hapgood Years, 1902 to 1913
By Ronald R. Rodgers
“A Dozen Best”: A Review of Literary Journalism Scholarship
By Nancy L. Roberts
Vol. 26
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Vol. 26, Issue 1, Winter 2009
In Their Own Voices: Women Redefine and Frame Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
By Kathleen Endres
Death and Communists: The Funeral Industry’s Attack on Jessica Mitford’s “The American Way of Death”
By Sharon Crook West & Joseph P. McKerns
“Ebony”’s Era Bell Thompson Travels the World To Tell the Story
By Jinx Coleman Broussard & Skye Chance Cooley
The State of Public Relations History
By Margot Opdycke Lamme, Jacquie L’Etang, & Burton St. John
The Historiography of Journalism History: Part 1: “An Overview”
By Chris Daly
The Historiography of Journalism History: Part 2: “Toward a New Theory”
By Chris Daly
Vol. 26, Issue 2,
Spring 2009
A ‘Race’ for Equality: Print Media Coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos
By Jason Peterson
“Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat”: Sportswriters, African American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League Baseball
By William Gillis
Hero Crafting in “Sporting Life”, an Early Baseball Journal
By Lori Amber Roessner
Sport as Cultural Assimilation: Representations of American Indian Athletes in the Carlisle School Newspaper
By Ray Gamache
“A Dozen Best”:Top Books for the Journalism Historian Exploring the History of the Book
By Kathy Roberts Forde
Vol. 26, Issue 3, Summer 2009
Oral History Project: An Interview with Patrick Washburn, Seattle, Washington, October, 2009
By Reed Smith
“The Guiding Spirit”: Philip Loeb, The Battle for Television Jurisdiction, and the Broadcasting Industry Blacklist
By Glenn D. Smith
Editor A.D. Griffin: Envisioning a New Age for Black Oregonians (1896-1907)
By Kimberley Mangun
The Extemporaneous Newscast: The Lasting Impact of Walter Cronkite’s Local Television News Experiment
By Mike Conway
“Little More than Minutes”: How Two Wyoming Community Newspapers Covered the Construction of the Heart Mountain Internment Camp
By Ronald Bishop
“A Dozen Best” Essential Readings in Journalism
By Elliot King & Jane Chapman
Vol. 26, Issue 4, Fall 2009
The President’s Editor: John W. Forney of the Press and Morning Chronicle
By Ford Risley
Fiend, Coward, Monster, or King: Southern Press Views of Abraham Lincoln
By Mary M. Cronin
Abraham Lincoln and Press Suppression Reconsidered
By David W. Bulla
“A Dozen Best”: Top Books on Presidents and the News Media
By James E. Muller
Lincoln’s Other War: Public Opinion, Press Issues, and Personal Pleas
By Jeffery A. Smith
Vol. 27
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Vol. 27, Issue 1, Winter 2010
Articles
Revolutions Incomplete: Horace Greeley and the Forty-eighters at Home and Abroad
By Gregory A. Borchard
Checking Financial Power: Newspaper Coverage of the New York Stock Exchange’s Bid to Control the Ticker, June 1889
By Cynthia Mitchell
Grabbing a Place on the Totem Pole: How Newspaperman H. Allen Smith Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Book Business
By Sara Baker Netzley
The Myth of Spiro Agnew’s “Nattering Nabobs of Negativism”
By Norman P. Lewis
The Burden of Being First: Carol Sutton and the Courier-Journal
By Kimberly Wilmot Voss
The Female Foot Pads of Boston Neck: “Freshest Advices” of 1736
By Joel S. Berson
Reviews
The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s, by Mike Conway
Reviewed by William E. Huntzicker
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, by John Maxwell Hamilton
Reviewed by James D. Startt
Battling Nell: The Life of Southern Journalist Cornelia Battle Lewis, 1893-1956, by Alexander S. Leidholdt
Reviewed by Darden Asbury Pyron
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, & Power, by James McGrath Morris
Reviewed by W. Joseph Campbell
A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America, by Peter Richardson
Reviewed by Gwyneth Mellinger
Radio’s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States, by Hugh Richard Slotten
Reviewed by Noah Arceneaux
The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer, by Jack Vitek
Reviewed by S. Elizabeth Bird
“A Dozen Best”: Top Books on First Amendment
By David W. Bulla
Presidential Address
By Julie Hedgepeth Williams
Vol. 27, Issue 2, Spring 2010
Articles
The Energy Crisis and the Media: Mobil Oil Corporation’s Debate with the Media, 1973-1983
By Vanessa Murphree and James Aucoin
Still Reading Women’s Magazines: Reconsidering the Tradition a Half Century After The Feminine Mystique
By Amy Aronson
Shell-Shocked in New Orleans: A Competitive Press During a Bloody Season, January 1973
By Stuart C. Babington
The Future Will Be Televised: Newspaper Industry Voices and the Rise of Television News
By Kristen Heflin
Research Notes
Why We Search for Answers
By Joe Marren
Book Reviews
Media Bias, Perspective, and the State Repression: The Black Panther Party, by Christian Davenport
Reviewed by Vanessa Murphree
African American Journalists: Autobiography as Memoir and Manifesto, by Calvin L. Hall
Reviewed by Anna R. Paddon
Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America, by Bert Hansen
Reviewed by Bruce V. Lewenstein
Negotiating in the Press: American Journalism and Diplomacy, 1918-1919, by Joseph R. Hayden
Reviewed by Dale E. Zacher
The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media’s Role in the Rise of the Right, by James Brian McPherson
Reviewed by Andrea Hickerson
The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950, by Troy Rondinone
Reviewed by Jon Bekken
A New Brand of Business: Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research, by Douglas B. Ward
Reviewed by Randy L. Armstrong
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, by Jan Whitt
Reviewed by Susan Weill
Vol. 27, Issue 3, Summer 2010
Articles
Learning the “Outsider” Profession: Serial Advice Columns in The Journalist
By Randall S. Sumpter
Colonel Edward M. House and the Journalists
By James D. Startt
The Geography of an American Icon: An Analysis of the Circulation of the Saturday Evening Post, 1911-1944
By Douglas B. Ward
The Dixiecrat Summer of 1948: Two South Carolina Editors—a Liberal and a Conservative—Foreshadow Modern Political Debate in the South
By Sid Bedingfield
Art Commentary for the Middlebrow: Promoting Modernism & Modern Art through Popular Culture—How Life Magazine Brought “The New” into Middle-Class Homes
By Sheila Webb
Research Notes
The Community Weekly Newspaper: Telling America’s Stories
By Beth H. Garfrerick
AJHA Oral History Project
An Interview with Michael Murray; Interviewed in Birmingham, Alabama, October 2009
By Reed Smith
Book Reviews
A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet, by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke
Reviewed by Tracy Lucht
American Culture in the 1930s, by David Eldridge
Reviewed by Michael Stamm
The Broadcast Century and Beyond: A Biography of American Broadcasting, by Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith
Reviewed by Ray Begovich
Mencken on Mencken, edited by S. T. Joshi
Reviewed by Elliot King
On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent’s Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam, by Seymour Topping
Reviewed by Pamela Ann Parry
Horace Greenley’s New-York Tribune: Civil War-Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor, by Adam Tuchinsky
Reviewed by Erika J. Pribanic-Smith
“A Dozen Best”: Twelve Ways to do “True” History
By E. M. Palmegiano
Vol. 27, Issue 4, Fall 2010
Articles
An Expanding Public Sphere: Women and Print in Colonial Virginia; 1736-1776
By Roger P. Mellen
Paul Lazarsfeld’s Radio and the Printed Page: A Critical Reappraisal
By Michael Stamm
“Snakes in Our Midst”: The Media, the Military and American Policy toward Vichy North Africa
By Richard Fine
Juggernaut in Kid Gloves: Inez Callaway Robb, 1900-1979
By Carolyn M. Edy
“To the detriment of the institution”: The Missouri Student‘s Fight to Desegregate the University of Missouri
By Aimee Edmondson & Earnest L. Perry
AJHA Oral History Project
An Interview with Wallace Eberhard: Interviewed in Birmingham, Alabama, October 2009
By Reed Smith
Book Reviews
The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism, edited by Stuart Allen
Reviewed by Kenneth Campbell
The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity, by Doug Cumming
Reviewed by Berkley Hudson
Women for President: Media Bias in Nine Campaigns, by Erika Falk
Reviewed by Patricia L. Dooley
Newspapers: A Complete Guide to the Industry, by Mike Farrell and Mary Carmen Cupito
Reviewed by Michael T. Martinez
Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century, edited by Kenneth Osgood and Andrew K. Frank
Reviewed by Wallace B. Eberhard
Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850-2000, by Richard Steven Street
Reviewed by Julianne H. Newton
“A Dozen Best”: Top Books on the Role of Press During the American Revolution
By Carol Sue Humphrey
Vol. 28
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Vol. 28, Issue 1, Winter 2011
Articles
“All Things Are As They Were Then”: Radio’s You Are There
By Matthew C. Ehrlich
Transforming Corporate Political Media Spending into Freedom of Speech: A Story of Alchemy and Finesse, 1977-78
By Roberts L. Kerr
Friend, Foe, or Freeloader? Cooperation and Competition between Newspapers and Radio in the Early 1920s
By Randall Patnode
Turning Right or Standing Still? Virginius Dabney and the New Deal in Virginia, 1930-1942
By Erika Pribanic-Smith
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
Journalism in the Civil War Era, by David W. Bulla and Gregory A. Borchard & First Hand: Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection, edited by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher
Reviewed by William E. Huntzicker
The Media’s Role in Defining the Nation: The Active Voice, by David A. Copeland
Reviewed by Bob Stepno
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age, by Adrian Johns
Reviewed by Richard C. Robinson
The Improbable First Century of Cosmopolitan Magazine, by James Landers
Reviewed by Lori Amber Roessner
Pen and Sword: American War Correspondents, 1989-1975, by Mary S. Mander
Reviewed by Giovanna Dell’Orto
The Origins of a Free Press in Prerevolutionary Virginia: Creating a Culture of Political Dissent, by Roger P. Mellen
Reviewed by Dean Jobb
War with Mexico! America’s Reporters Cover the Battlefront, by Tom Reilly
Reviewed by Sonny Rhodes
Presidential Address
Expanding Our Research, Expanding Our Reach
By Earnest L. Perry
Vol. 28, Issue 2, Spring 2011
Articles
Capitalism as a Necessary Evil: How E.W. Scripps Charted a Cautious Course Toward the Left
By Michael Sheehy
The Washington Correspondent in the Progressive Era: The New York Times’ Charles Willis Thompson
By Gerald L. Fetner
Wise Decisions: A Frontier Newspaper’s Coverage of the Dakota Conflict
By Charles Lewis
Learning from the Trades: Public Relations, Journalism, and News Release Writing, 1945-2000
By Lisa Mullikin Parcell
Newspaper Monopolies Under the Microscope: The Celler Hearings of 1963
By Stuart C. Babington
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman’s Life in Journalism, by Belva Davis with Vicki Haddock
Reviewed by Ann Y. White
Seen and Heard: The Women of Television News, by Nichola D. Gutgold
Reviewed by Lisa M. Burns
American Iconographic: National Geographic, Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination, by Stephanie L. Hawkins
Reviewed by Nicole Maurantonio
The Opinions of Mankind: Racial Issues, Press, and Propaganda in the Cold War, by Richard Lentz and Karla K. Gower
Reviewed by Lawrence Strout
Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, “America’s Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine,” by Henry E. Scott
Reviewed by Amy Mattson Lauters
No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings; A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics, by Robert Shogan
Reviewed by Pamela Ann Parry
Between the Bylines: A Father’s Legacy, by Susan E. Wiant
Reviewed by Douglass K. Daniel
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, by Tim Wu
Reviewed by JoAnne Holman
Vol. 28, Issue 3, Summer 2011
Articles
“A Light Out of This World”: Awe, Anxiety, and Routinization in Early Nuclear Test Coverage, 1951-1953
By Glen M. Feighery
Our Founding Anonymity: Anonymous Speech During the Constitutional Debate
By Victoria Smith Ekstrand and Cassandra Imfeld Jeyaram
Shocking Atrocities in Colorado: Newspapers’ Responses to the Ludlow Massacre
By Elizabeth V. Burt
Coloring America’s Pastime: Sporting Life‘s Coverage of Race & the Emergence of Baseball’s Color Line, 1883-1889
By Lori Amber Roessner
AJHA Oral History Project
An Interview with Betty Houchin Winfeld
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell, by John Bloom
Reviewed by Ray Gamache
On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism, by Matt Carlson
Reviewed by John Vivian
Justices and Journalists: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Media, by Richard Davis
Reviewed by Joe Mathewson
Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, by Matthew C. Ehrlich
Reviewed by Stacy Spaulding
Becoming the Second City: Chicago’s Mass News Media, 1833-1898, by Richard Junger
Reviewed by James Kates
Business Girls & Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women, by Jane Marcellus
Reviewed by Janet Rice McCoy
Watergate’s Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse, by Jon Marshall
Reviewed by James Aucoin
The Supreme Court and the Press: The Indispensable Conflict, by Joe Mathewson
Reviewed by Thomas A. Schwartz
A Free Press in Freehand: The Spirit of American Blogging in the Handwritten Newspapers of John McLean Harrington 1858-1869, by Michael Ray Smith
Reviewed by Sonny Rhodes
Vol. 28, Issue 4, Autumn 2011
Articles
Does Journalism History Matter?
By John Nerone
The Mediatization of War: A Comparison of the American and German Media Coverage of the Vietnam and Iraq Wars
By Gerd Horten
Daughters of the New Revolutionary War: Representations of Confederate Women and Gun Culture in the Confederate Press, 1861-1864
By Mary M. Cronin
Jesse Who?: Race, the Southern Press, and the 1936 Olympic Games
By Robert Drake
The Selling of Sex, Sleaze, Scuttlebutt, and other Shocking Sensations: The Evolution of New Journalism in San Francisco, 1887-1900
By Mark Bernhardt
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
Journalism and Realism: Rendering American Life, by Thomas B. Connery
Reviewed by Paulette Kilmer
Scandal & Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy, by Marcus Daniel
Reviewed by Thomas C. Terry
Radio’s Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s, by David Goodman
Reviewed by Krysti J. Carlson-Goering
Roi Ottley’s World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist, by Mark A. Huddle
Reviewed by Earnest Perry
The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by Steve Wick
Reviewed by Raluca Cozma
Presidential Address
Why You Matter to History
By James Brian McPherson
Vol. 29
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Vol. 29, Issue 1, Winter 2012
Reporters and “Willing Propagandists”: AEF Correspondents Define Their Roles
By Michael S. Sweeney
Little Magazines and Little Wanderers: Building Advocate Networks for Adoption During the Progressive Era
By Patricia S. Hart
Freedom’s Vanguard: Horace Greeley on Threats to Press Freedom in the Early Years of the Penny Press
By Daxton R. “Chip” Stewart
Pine Straw in an Evil Wind: A Study of James Boyd and the Pilot of Southern Pines, NC, 1941-1944
By Melita M. Garza
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space, by Alice Fahs
Reviewed by Agnes Hooper Gottlieb
New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press, by Kermit Hall & Melvin Urofsky
Reviewed by David Wallace
Trauma Journalism: On Deadline in Harm’s Way, by Mark H. Masse/Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss, by Doug Underwood
Reviewed by Janice Hume
Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America, by John McMillian
Reviewed by Linda Lumsden
A Moment of Danger: Critical Studies in the History of US Communication since World War II, edited by Janice Peck & Inger L. Stole
Reviewed by William Gillis
Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America, by David A. Taylor/Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story, film produced by Spark Media for Smithsonian Networks
Reviewed by Mary Wigginton
Essay
Stoking the Research Fire: Three Views
By Charles C. Self, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, & Amy Schmitz Weiss
Vol. 29, Issue 2, Spring 2012
Articles
The Woman Citizen: A Study of How News Narratives Adapt to a Changing Social Environment
By Sheila M. Webb
“We Used Every Effort to be Impartial”: The Complicated Response of Newspaper Publishers to Unions
By Philip M. Glende
Food Journalism or Culinary Anthropology? Re-evaluating Soft News and the Influence of Jeanne Voltz’s Food Section in the Los Angeles Times
By Kimberly Wilmot Voss
“They Deserve a Stinging Defeat”: How Mississippi Newspapers’ Coverage of the 1955 Junior Rose Bowl Protected the Closed Society
By Jason A. Peterson
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, by Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres
Reviewed by John M. Coward
From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898, by Bonnie M. Miller
Reviewed by W. Joseph Campbell
Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era, by Amy Reynolds & Gary Hicks
Reviewed by Sid Bedingfield
Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson, by Amanda Smith
Reviewed by Jim R. Martin
After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment, by Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini
Reviewed by Joe W. Watson
Essay
Putting Your Community on Stage: Creating a Play out of Local Historical Letters to the Editor
By Doug Cumming
Vol. 29, Issue 3, Summer 2012
Of Tempests, Laughing Horses, and Sacred Cows: Controlling College Student Presses between the World Wars
By Timothy Reese Cain
The “Dam Talk” of Butler, Tennessee: Tracing the Stability and Change of Historical Memory in Newspaper Coverage
By Christie M. Kleinmann
“As Though the Sixties Never Happened”: Newspaper Coverage of a First Amendment Battle Over Baltimore’s Last Blackface Act
By Stacy Spaulding
Freedom of the Press under Attack during the 1938 Labor Uprisings in Jamaica: The Prosecution of the Publishers of the Jamaica Labour Weekly
By Roxanne S. Watson
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
Ed Kennedy’s War: V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press, edited by Julia Kennedy Cochran
Reviewed by Richard Fine
Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos, by Janet Carey Eldred
Reviewed by Phyllis Alsdurf
Chronicles of a Two-Front War: Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press, by Lawrence Allen Eldridge
Reviewed by Ann Y. White
Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat, by Max Holland
Reviewed by Mark Feldstein
Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era, edited by Greg Robinson
Reviewed by Takeya Mizuno
Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow, by Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius
Reviewed by Kenneth Campbell
Vol. 29, Issue 4, Autumn 2012
Message Boards, Public Discourse, and Historical Meaning: An Online Community Reacts to September 11
By Bonnie Bressers and Janice Hume
The Pill at Fifty: How the New York Times Covered the Birth Control Pill, 1960-2010
By Marjorie Kruvand
“Dear D”: Sophie Treadwell’s 1915 Correspondence from the “Big War Theatre”
By Jane Marcellus
Not “Merely an Advertisement”: Purity, Trust, and Flour, 1880-1930
By Lisa Mullikin Parcell and Margot Opdycke Lamme
AJHA Oral History Project
An Interview with James Startt
Book Reviews
Editor: Dolores Flamiano
Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement, by Aniko Bodroghkozy
Reviewed by Ralph Engelman
Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley & Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News, by Dan Rather
Reviewed by Michael D. Murray
The Rise and Fall of Early Magazine Culture, by Jared Gardner
Reviewed by Sally Renaud
Saving the World: A Brief History of Communication for Development and Social Change, by Emile G. McAnany
Reviewed by John Jenks
Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel, by Connie Sage
Reviewed by John Jenks
Digital Media Reviews
Editor: Pete Smith
More Than a Map(p)
Reviewed by Hazel James Cole
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Reviewed by Erika Pribanic-Smith
Freedom Riders, directed by Stanley Nelson (PBS) & Soundtrack for a Revolution, directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman (Docurama Films)
Reviewed by Aimee Edmondson
Vol. 30
These issues are available through Communication and Mass Media Complete on EBSCOHost.
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