Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.   

Latest episode: Episode 86, Woodrow Wilson’s Ministry of Propaganda – John Maxwell Hamilton on the Committee on Public Information.

This month’s recommendations from the archive:

Episode 50.5: Why Does Journalism History Matter? To celebrate the first 50 episodes, the podcast hosts reflect with prior guests on the central question of the show: Why does journalism history matter?

Bonus Episode: The History of American Epidemics Katie Foss discusses her upcoming book, Constructing the Outbreak, which analyzes seven epidemics spanning more than 200 years. She covers how shifts in journalism and medicine influenced the coverage, preservation, and fictionalization of different disease outbreaks

Episode 83: America’s ‘Tory’ Printer Autumn Linford discusses the real story of James Rivington, the most infamous printer of the American Revolution. Her research seeks to broad the historical understanding of Rivington beyond the textbook mentions of his work as a Tory newspaper printer.