Teaching Essay Teaching Essay: An Embattled Terrain 5 Apr 20215 Apr 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 202025 Jun 2020 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…
Teaching Essay Shemberger Essay: Education Reporting in the Civil Rights Era 11 Feb 20205 Feb 2020 “Southern Education Report: An Examination of a Magazine’s Contribution to Education News in the Civil Rights Era” (Journalism History, December 2019) sheds light on how one of journalism’s most important…
Teaching Essay Bedingfield Essay: Roy Wilkins, Journalism History, and Law-and-Order Rhetoric 26 Nov 2019 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…
Teaching Essay Smith Essay: Women Journalists, Hard News, and Newsroom Diversity 16 Sep 201917 Sep 2019 “‘Raising Unshirted Hell’: The Journalism of Norma Fields, State Capitol Correspondent for the Northeast (MS) Daily Journal” (June 2019) examines the career of the first woman to cover state politics…
Teaching Essay Mallouli essay: Quantitative frame analysis for media & communication students 3 Jun 20193 Jun 2019 "The Framing of North Africans by U.S. Print Media during Operation Torch in World War II" (Sofiene Mallouli and Michael S. Sweeney, Journalism History, March 2019) is an attempt to…
Teaching Essay Yotova essay: Teaching George Foster, literary journalist and muckraker 26 Feb 201920 Feb 2019 "Antebellum Urban Reporting as Literary Journalism and Muckraking: George G. Foster’s City Sketches in the New York Press" points to the historical developments and significance of alternative, or non-mainstream, forms…
