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…
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…
