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Featured Image: “Dark City,” by Dennis Leung (CC BY 2.0) Volume 47, No. 3, Sept. 2021 The September issue contains articles by Katrina Quinn, Wing Kin Puk, Mary Cronin, and Autumn Linford. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “Big Brains and the Solid South:…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Giles Podcast: Covering the Kent State Shootings

20 Sep 202117 Sep 2021

For the 88th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, author Bob Giles discusses his book, When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later, and…

Orozco, Agent of Change

13 Sep 202111 Sep 2021

2021-015 | Download PDF Orozco, Cynthia E. Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020, 272 pp., $40…

9/11 Essay Series

Burns Essay: Mediated Memories of 9/11

10 Sep 20218 Sep 2021

“Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?” Most of us who are old enough to remember the events of September 11, 2001, can easily answer…

DeMentri Podcast: Reporting from Ground Zero

6 Sep 20211 Sep 2021

For the 87th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, former television reporter Vince DeMentri recalls reporting live from the wreckage of the World Trade Center on…

Cooper, Doing the Right Thing

19 Aug 202111 Aug 2021

2021-014 | Download PDF Cooper, Tom. Doing the Right Thing: Twelve Portraits in Moral Courage. UK: Abramis Academic Publishing, 2020, 300 pp., $24.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Willie R. Tubbs, University…

Hamilton Podcast: Woodrow Wilson’s Ministry of Propaganda

16 Aug 202111 Aug 2021

For the 86th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to John Maxwell Hamilton about the propaganda spread during World War I by President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee…

9/11 Essay Series

Reed Essay: ‘You’re not patriotic if you’re not wearing a mask’

9 Aug 20217 Aug 2021

National news media reframes 9/11 survivors as immunosuppressed during COVID-19 pandemic When the World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan fell on Sept. 11, 2001, “billions of razor-sharp shards of…

Jackson Podcast: Making Jesse James a Folk Hero

2 Aug 202128 Jul 2021

For the 85th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Cathy Jackson about the outsized role that newspapers played in making a folk hero out of…

van Tuyll, O’Brien, & Broersma, Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press

29 Jul 20213 Aug 2021

2021-013 | Download PDF Reddin van Tuyll, Debra, Mark O'Brien, and Marcel Broersma, eds. Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press, 1784-1963. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2021, 448…

Diversity Essay Series

Call for Essays: Diversity in Media History

26 Jul 202126 Jul 2021

The website for AEJMC History Division's scholarly journal Journalism History seeks essays placing media diversity in historical context. The impetus for this essay series is the History Division's goal of…