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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”

Wright emphasizes multidisciplinary potential for teaching Wilma Soss

20 Nov 201817 Nov 2018

The featured image above depicts Wilma Soss interviewing New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston. (Photo from the the Collections of American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.) Classroom uses…

Scholars discuss oral history in research

13 Nov 201829 Nov 2018

The featured image above depicts the subject of an oral history project by Nicholas Hirshon, New York Mayor John Lindsay, speaking in 1965. (Photo from the New York World-Telegram and…

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Eberhard’s contributions showed passion for history

6 Nov 201829 Nov 2018

The featured photo above depicts Patrick Washburn, left, and Wally Eberhard at a 2017 journalism history conference. By Erika Pribanic-Smith Wallace B. “Wally” Eberhard was a giant in the field…

Sweeney explores important role of journalists

30 Oct 20188 Nov 2018

For the third episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with former Journalism History editor Michael S. Sweeney about his research on a newspaper reporter who came…

TV crime dramas inspired Brian Carroll’s research

23 Oct 201819 Oct 2018

The featured image shows “Father of Forensics” Sir Bernard Spilsbury setting up a makeshift lab to examine the remains of an early 20th-century murder victim. (East Sussex County Libraries, under…

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First Amendment essay series

19 Oct 201819 Oct 2018

The website for the scholarly journal Journalism History seeks essays placing concepts related to First Amendment rights, particularly free speech and free press, in historical context. One installment in the…

Professors discuss advising strategies for theses/dissertations

16 Oct 20188 Nov 2018

For the second episode of the Journalism History podcast, the podcast team recorded a panel at the American Journalism Historians Association 2018 national convention in Salt Lake City. This panel…

Borchard talks Lincoln and media

1 Oct 201812 Aug 2020

For the first episode of the Journalism History podcast, Teri Finneman interviewed the journal's editor Gregory Borchard regarding his book Lincoln Mediated (co-authored with Journalism History Assistant Editor David Bulla)…

Crane/Lesher article inspires teaching with campus news

The featured image above is a partial front page from the Easterner (Ball State), one of the newspapers Crane and Lesher studied for their article. Jill J. Crane and Marcella…

Garza’s research explores Americanhood

7 Sep 20187 Sep 2018

By Erika Pribanic-Smith For her article “The Mediated Jorge Washington: Father of Our Countries” in the Summer 2018 issue of Journalism History, Melita Garza (Texas Christian University) examined how the…