Teaching Essay Teaching Essay: The “Showbiz Politics” of Copyright Reform 11 Jul 20227 Jul 2022 As a Southern governor with presidential ambitions, Jimmy Carter “had treated multimillionaire [Capricorn Records co-founder Phil] Walden like a good ol’ boy—with respect.” So wrote Rolling Stone reporter Art Harris…
Teaching Essay Grieve Essay: A Woman Journalist on the Labor Beat 23 May 202223 May 2022 Agitate, Educate, Mobilize, and Confront “Advocacy Journalism, Labor Feminism, and the Timber Worker, 1936-1940” (Journalism History, March 2022) analyzes labor journalist Julia Bertram’s combination of union activism and advocacy journalism…
Teaching Essay Boling Essay: Cultural Significance of a Black Public Affairs Program 7 Feb 20224 Feb 2022 In 1965, WIS-TV in Columbia, SC, hired their first African American employee. A recent college graduate, Isaac Washington was excited for the opportunity, even if it meant he would be…
Teaching Essay Quinn Essay: Reporting on Political Candidates and Elections 29 Oct 2021 Nineteenth-century political candidates rarely campaigned for office. More gentlemanly it would be to stay in the background, to accept the nomination out of duty rather than out of desire. But…
Teaching Essay Sumpter Essay: The Mutual Life Insurance Scandal 28 Jun 2021 Making Public Opinion My study of the 1905 Armstrong Committee’s investigation of fraudulent practices in the life insurance industry incorporated an interesting debate about what constituted legitimate public relations practices…
Teaching Essay Teaching Essay: An Embattled Terrain 5 Apr 202128 Jun 2021 Women, African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants at the Margins in U.S. Newspaper Stories, 1820-1860 Historian Barbara Welter imagined a Cult of True Womanhood[i] in the 19th Century that idealized…
Teaching Essay Walck Essay: Teaching Journalism By and For Women 10 Feb 202111 Feb 2021 In an era when the pinnacle of American womanhood included a doting husband, a house with a white picket fence and the sound of children’s feet pattering about, the Pittsburgh…
Teaching Essay Hirshon Essay: Exploring the Complicated History of Advertising 13 Oct 20206 Oct 2020 Long before Ritz became America’s favorite cracker, there was Uneeda Biscuit. At the turn of the century, Uneeda benefited from one of the first national campaigns to brand a food…
Teaching Essay Roessner Essay: Recovering the Voices of the People 30 Jun 202024 Jan 2022 Answering continued calls for a cultural approach to the study of women’s history, “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering Structures of Feeling about Women’s Suffrage in 1917 U.S. Newspaper Letters…
Teaching Essay Greene-Blye Essay: Finding Sources to Amplify Native-American Voices 7 Apr 20202 Apr 2020 “Great Men, Savages, and the End of the Indian Problem” (Journalism History, March 2020) uses historical examples to examine some of the reasons that our nation’s contemporary news media often…