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Volume 45, No. 4, December 2019 The December issue contains articles by Bailey Dick, Thomas Aiello, Mark D. Szuchman, and Melony Shemberger. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “’Is It Not Possible to Be a Radical and a Christian?’: Dorothy Day’s Evolving Relationship with…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Lane podcast: Defending Joe McCarthy

20 Jan 202020 Jan 2020

For the 41st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Julie Lane about the passionate following that Joe McCarthy had during his lifetime and the political…

Aiello Essay: Black Foreign Policy Journalism from a Black Domestic Policy Historian

Louis Emanuel Lomax was an ex-con, a former prisoner in Illinois’ Joliet Correctional Center convicted for a confidence scheme selling rented automobiles to used car dealers. He also had uncontested…

Campbell podcast: 1995: The Year the Future Began

For the 40th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with W. Joseph Campbell about the major media events that made 1995 a watershed year, from the…

First Amendment Essay

Davie Essay: A Peace Worth Disturbing

19 Dec 201916 Dec 2019

How Louisiana Forums Redefined Free Speech Americans are a fun-loving people, and a lot of the fun to be had is out in public. Americans travel by public transit to…

Holiday podcast: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

16 Dec 201915 Dec 2019

For the 39th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosts Teri Finneman, Nick Hirshon, and Will Mari come together for a special Christmas episode that tells the story of an…

First Amendment Essay

Carlson Essay: Media Ownership and the Marketplace of Ideas

10 Dec 201910 Dec 2019

A century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes introduced the concept of the Marketplace of Ideas to U.S. jurisprudence. In his dissent in Abrams v. United States (1919), Holmes said, “the…

Pribanic-Smith podcast: Emma Goldman and the First Amendment

2 Dec 20192 Dec 2019

For the 38th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Will Mari spoke with Erika Pribanic-Smith about anarchist leader Emma Goldman's World War I-era First Amendment struggles. Past chair of…

Bedingfield Essay: Roy Wilkins, Journalism History, and Law-and-Order Rhetoric

Roy Wilkins is best known as an activist who led the NAACP during the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath. But my recent article, “The Journalism of Roy Wilkins and…

Haygood podcast: The Anti-Christ of Advertising

For the 37th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Daniel Haygood about the many sides of controversial advertising executive Rosser Reeves. Daniel Haygood is an…

First Amendment Essay

Klein Essay: “Speaking Out”: Press Freedom in Ethiopia

When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October of 2019, it was in part for "granting amnesty to thousands of political prisoners,” including many…