Journalism History

Suva, Noenoe K. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 260 pp. $21.95.A key finding in a readership survey for the large Honolulu dailies in the mid-1990s was that their most loyal...

Mills, Kay. Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case That Transformed Television. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 313 pp. $30.This book focuses on WLBT-TV, which was involved in an important media legal case that also was a critical moment...

Lidsky, Larissa Barnett and R. George Wright. Freedom of the Press: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2004. 179 pp. $94.95.Most legal scholarship is based on the case method, which involves an analysis of related...

On December 3, 184 7, the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass published the first issue of the North Star in Rochester, New York. This article examines his earliest moments as a journalist by studying the responses of the city's white dailies to his...

Ralph Waldo Tyler, an Ohio newspaperman and political operative, was the only African-American accredited by the U.S. government as a war correspondent in World War I. As an employee of the Committee on Public Information, he also served as an observer...

In an era when many newspapers resisted opening their news columns to interpretive articles because editors held to the concept of objective journalism, the National Observer demonstrated a commitment to news interpretation of cultural, political, and...

Thompson, Susan. The Penny Press: The Origins of the Modern News Media, 1833-1861. Northport, Ala.: Vision Press, 2004. 247 pp. $21.95.In the 1830s, as New York's middle- and working-class ranks grew, so, too, did the public's appetite for news. Penny...