Recently added articles from Journalism History:
From Newspaper Row to Times Square
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Dispersal and Contested Identity of an Imagined Journalistic Community Until the early twentieth century, Park Row was synonymous with New York newspapers. Of the newspapers that left Park Row, the New York Times was notable for having established a geographic landmark that was ...
Westbrook Pegler, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the FBI
Jan 01, 2009; ... A History of Infamous Enmities and Unlikely Collaborations The conservative newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler was notorious for his enmity towards Eleanor Roosevelt, but according to previous scholarship she dismissed his criticism as insignificant. Scholars have depicted Roosevelt as ...
"Goodness Isn't News"
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Sheldon Edition and the National Conversation Defining Journalisms Responsibility to Society This article explores the national discussion in 1900 about press responsibility, which was sparked by the Rev. Charles Sheldon, a pastor of a Congregationalist church, serving a week-long ...
The Journalist and the Jurist
Jan 01, 2009; ... Political Adversaries Enlisted in "a Long Campaign on Behalf of Civil Liberties" In the early days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, a progressive Harvard Law professor and a conservative New York editorial page editor began a correspondence that lasted twenty years. The ...
"The Beginning of the End"
Jan 01, 2009; ... An Analysis of British Newspaper Coverage of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Although negative perceptions of the character of African Americans were at the center of the British press debate over the merits of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, it was the way that his ...
Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign
Jan 01, 2009; ... Adams, Katherine H., and Michael L. Keene. Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 274 pp. $25. Scores of books and journal articles have been written about the woman's suffrage movement in the United States, but far less attention has ...
Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America
Jan 01, 2009; ... Cohen, Charles L., and Paul S. Boyer, eds. Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 369 pp. $29.95. Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America is a collection of essays that emerged from a 2004 conference by the same name ...
Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent
Jan 01, 2009; ... Daniloff, Nicholas. Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. 436 pp. $24.95. Like Forrest Gump, the author of this memoir offers a nostalgic sweep of baby boomer history. But unlike Gump, Daniloff is a real person, a ...
The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary
Jan 01, 2009; ... Levin, Linda L. The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008. 538 pp. $28.98. Volumes have been written about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his twelveyear presidency, but what had not been written until ...
Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
Jan 01, 2009; ... Falk, Erika. Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 192 pp. $19.95. Even before Hillary Clinton announced that she would pursue the presidency in January 2007, folks who anticipated she would do so began to buzz about the potential ...
Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America
Jan 01, 2009; ... McKivigan, John R. Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. 291 pp. $45. John R. McKivigan's biography, Forgot- ten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America, comparable to the ...
Black Space
Jan 01, 2009; ... Nama, Adilifu. Black Space. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 200 pp. $24.95. You may recall the famous depiction of Darwinian evolution in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) in which a group of primates using a bone as a tool is replaced by a white space station inhabited by ...
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America
Jan 01, 2009; ... Muller, Gilbert. William Cullen Bryant: Author of America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. 410 pp. $30. Born during the United States' infancy, William Cullen Bryant became one of the country's first literary giants. When he died at age eighty-three, he was an ...
Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist
Jan 01, 2009; ... Scharnhorst, Gary. Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2008. 306 pp. $27.95. When Kate Field, a journalist appar- ently known to almost everyone in the nineteenth century and almost no one in the twenty-first, ...
Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sterling, Christopher, and Michael Keith. Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 317 pp. $22.50. When the DVD came onto the video market barely a decade ago to replace the VHS format, the transition was relatively ...
Journalism 1908: Birth of a Profession
Jan 01, 2009; ... Winfield, Betty Houchin, ed. Journalism 1908: Birth of a Profession. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. 356 pp. $24.95. Journalism 1908 is a proud and earnest volume principally intended to mark the centenary of the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and recall its ...
Henry Luce's Strange Trip: Coverage of LSD in Time and Life, 1954-68
Oct 01, 2008; ... Before possession of hallucinogens was made a federal crime, LSD was the subject of numerous stories in Time and Life magazines, many of which described the experience in glowing terms. The drug was frequently discussed as a scientific marvel that had the potential to enhance or induce religious ...
The ASNE and Desegregation: Maintaining the White Prerogative in the Face of Change
Oct 01, 2008; ... During the 1950s, the American Society of Newspaper Editors became the site of an ideological struggle between the racial status quo and the new social order envisioned by the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. This article examines the all-white ASNE in the years after Brown ...
Totalitarian Refugee or Fascist Mistress? Comparing Lisa Sergio's Autobiography to Her FBI File
Oct 01, 2008; ... Did Italian propaganda broadcaster Lisa Sergio, who claimed to have been Europe's first female radio announcer, flee Italy in 1937 because she became an anti-fascist (as she claimed) or because she boasted too much about affairs with high fascist officials (as her FBI file asserted)? This ...
Public Memory, Cultural Legacy, and Press Coverage of the Juneteenth Revival
Oct 01, 2008; ... Following the Civil War, African Americans in Texas celebrated their emancipation with an annual holiday known as "Juneteenth. " The celebration migrated to other areas of the country, and over the past several years there has been a concerted effort to establish it as a national holiday. Using ...