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…
Research Essay Webb Essay: Researching A Century of Education for American Women 20 Aug 201920 Aug 2019 My work on the Delphian Society is one example of my long-standing research interests which have been devoted to periodicals and their role in American life and culture. Entrée into…
Research Essay Zboray and Zboray essay: Studying disability history through 19th-century newspapers 6 May 20196 May 2019 What did newspapers have to say about physical disability in Civil War-era America? What words did they use to represent the multitudes of soldiers who had lost their limbs in…
Research Essay Glende essay: Researching Riesel and organized labor 29 Jan 201921 Jan 2019 I became interested in Victor Riesel while researching for my dissertation at the University of Wisconsin. I was examining how organized labor was covered by mass circulation newspapers during a…
Research Essay TV crime dramas inspired Brian Carroll’s research 23 Oct 201819 Oct 2018 The featured image shows “Father of Forensics” Sir Bernard Spilsbury setting up a makeshift lab to examine the remains of an early 20th-century murder victim. (East Sussex County Libraries, under…
Research Essay Garza’s research explores Americanhood 7 Sep 20187 Sep 2018 By Erika Pribanic-Smith For her article “The Mediated Jorge Washington: Father of Our Countries” in the Summer 2018 issue of Journalism History, Melita Garza (Texas Christian University) examined how the…
