Research Essay Research Essay: The May Fourth Incident in the North China Herald 27 Sep 202127 Sep 2021 The year 2019 marked the hundredth anniversary of the May Fourth Incident in Beijing. On 4 May 1919, outraged by news about the Paris Peace Conference denying restoration of Chinese…
Research Essay Research Essay: History as Breaking News 12 Jul 202124 Aug 2021 Writing about white supremacy during the summer of the George Floyd protests We must confess that our article in this issue of Journalism History was not born out of some…
Research Essay Daniels Essay: Bridging the Worlds of Local TV News and Media History 3 May 202128 May 2021 On September 10, 2020, Janet Hall anchored her final newscast at top-rated Birmingham television station WBRC-TV. At the end of the 6 p.m. newscast, Hall’s co-anchor Jonathan Hardison introduced a…
Research Essay Mari Essay: Newsroom Work Poetry in Twentieth-Century American Journalism 11 Jan 2021 I suspect that every media historian at some point sees something in their work that makes them remark (to themselves), “huh, wouldn’t that be a fun article?” This happens in…
Research Essay Brown Essay: Researching the GULAG 10 Nov 20205 Nov 2020 In 2012 the University of Wyoming and al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Kazakhstan signed a cooperation agreement that has lasted to the present. One outcome was an opportunity to…
Research Essay Mangun Essay: Researching the Life and Career of Birmingham World Editor Emory O. Jackson 11 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 I’d sure like to invite Emory Jackson to my next dinner party. Despite studying the longtime editor of the Birmingham (Alabama) World for a decade, and talking with people who…
Research Essay Rodgers Essay: The Social Awakening’s Resonance in a Time of Inflection, Infection and Insurrection 28 Jul 202016 Jul 2020 More than once in my journalism classes, I have heard my students attempt to suppress snickers whenever I use the contemporary epithet “woke” in describing the world view of social-justice…
Research Essay Shott Essay: Becoming an Historian of the Black and Irish Press 10 Mar 202011 Mar 2020 When I enrolled in graduate school in U.S. history at the age of forty-one, I already knew I liked newspapers—I had worked for more than fifteen years as a writer…
Research Essay Aiello Essay: Black Foreign Policy Journalism from a Black Domestic Policy Historian 13 Jan 2020 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…
Research Essay Newman Essay: ‘Red Journalism’: Modeling Primary Research with Historical Newspapers 28 Oct 201929 Oct 2019 “‘Red Journalism’: The Allegheny Indians, Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette, and the Ethnic Cleansing of Pennsylvania, 1747-1764” (Journalism History, September 2019) started as my term paper. In August 2018 I assigned…
