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Volume 51, No. 4, Winter, 2025. This issue contains an editor’s note from editor Perry Parks on this issue’s theme, Race and the Early 20th Century Press. There are four essays from Edward Timke, Matthew Pressman, Kavitha Rajagopalan and Michael T. Martinez. There are three research articles by Jason McDonald,…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: Why Black Baseball History Matters

4 Apr 20221 Apr 2022

I imagine that at one time or another all historians have conjured the historical moment we most ardently desire to have witnessed with our own eyes. I have directed in…

Popkova Podcast: The Immigrant Press and the First Red Scare

28 Mar 202223 Mar 2022

For the 101st episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, researcher Anna Popkova describes the importance of the immigrant press in the early 1900s to help build and…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: The American Penal Press Contest and the Cultivation of Prison Journalism, 1965-1991

21 Mar 202215 Oct 2025

When Charles C. Clayton, journalism professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIU), started making the hour-long drive to Southern Illinois Penitentiary in 1956, his plan was to support the facility’s…

File Podcast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom

For the 100th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Patrick File discusses his book, Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel and Press Freedom in…

Aiello, The Life & Times of Louis Lomax

2022-03 | Download PDF Aiello, Thomas. The Life & Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021, 264 pp., $26.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Pete…

Montalbano Essay: Understanding COVID-19 Via the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic

7 Mar 20225 Mar 2022

We all have different recollections of how we reacted to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. For some of us, we may not have entirely processed the myriad ways…

Mari Podcast: A Tour of the Midcentury Newsroom

28 Feb 202222 Mar 2022

For the 99th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, author Will Mari gives a tour of the American newsroom as it existed in the mid-20th century,…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: Perpetual Foreigners

21 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

Press Coverage of Japanese Immigration during the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907–1908 across the Pacific The history of Asians in the United States reflects their eternal immigrant status as unassimilable “forever…

Stoner Podcast: Dear Abby, I’m Gay

14 Feb 202213 Feb 2022

For the 98th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Andrew Stoner describes how advice columnists, such as Ann Landers, Dear Abby and Dr. Joyce Brothers,…

Stoner, Dear Abby, I’m Gay

2022-02 | Download PDF Stoner, Andrew. Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists and Homosexuality in America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2021, 225 pp., $27.95 (Softcover). Reviewed by Carolina Velloso, University…