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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”

First Amendment Essay

Davie Essay: A Peace Worth Disturbing

19 Dec 201916 Dec 2019

How Louisiana Forums Redefined Free Speech Americans are a fun-loving people, and a lot of the fun to be had is out in public. Americans travel by public transit to…

Holiday podcast: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

16 Dec 201915 Dec 2019

For the 39th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosts Teri Finneman, Nick Hirshon, and Will Mari come together for a special Christmas episode that tells the story of an…

First Amendment Essay

Carlson Essay: Media Ownership and the Marketplace of Ideas

10 Dec 201910 Dec 2019

A century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes introduced the concept of the Marketplace of Ideas to U.S. jurisprudence. In his dissent in Abrams v. United States (1919), Holmes said, “the…

Pribanic-Smith podcast: Emma Goldman and the First Amendment

2 Dec 20192 Dec 2019

For the 38th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Will Mari spoke with Erika Pribanic-Smith about anarchist leader Emma Goldman's World War I-era First Amendment struggles. Past chair of…

Bedingfield Essay: Roy Wilkins, Journalism History, and Law-and-Order Rhetoric

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…

Haygood podcast: The Anti-Christ of Advertising

For the 37th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Daniel Haygood about the many sides of controversial advertising executive Rosser Reeves. Daniel Haygood is an…

First Amendment Essay

Klein Essay: “Speaking Out”: Press Freedom in Ethiopia

11 Nov 20197 May 2020

When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October of 2019, it was in part for "granting amnesty to thousands of political prisoners,” including many…

Pressman podcast: The Press at the Precipice

4 Nov 20194 Nov 2019

For the 36th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Matthew Pressman about the emergence of a risky style of reporting and selling the news in…

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…

Dick podcast: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

22 Oct 20194 Nov 2019

For the 35th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Bailey Dick about the radical journalism of Dorothy Day during her five decades at the helm…