Journalism History

This is the third in a series of articles on archival collections of interest to mass communication historians. Readers of Journalism History are invited to suggest collections that they would like to see appear in future articles, and the editors would...

Schechter, Danny. Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception-How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003. 286 pp. $26.The Bush administration has proven to be a lighting rod for comment. Whereas its predecessor provoked...

In the crucial formative years of Richard Nixon's rise to power, syndicated columnist Drew Pearson, a fellow Quaker, emerged as Nixon's primary journalistic enemy. With an audience of tens of millions, he denounced Nixon's earliest Red-baiting campaigns,...

Although Harold Ross is credited with founding The New Yorker, in reality it was co-founded in 1925 by Ross and his wife, Jane Grant. This article describes Grant's crucial role in the magazine's conception, birth, postpartum struggles, and early success,...

Lewes, James. Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.243 pp. $67.95.Late in the Vietnam War, when disillusionment had spread within the U.S. military as well as among civilians, an underground...

This article uses oral history, archival research, and popular and trade publications mostly from the 1960s and the 1970s to tell the story of Action for Children's Television (ACT). An advocacy group started by a group of mothers in Newton, Massachusetts,...

Classen, Steven D. Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 248 pp. $21.95.This book is an original, important work that provides a detailed social history of media activism and communications...