Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, a new book co-edited by Kathy Roberts Forde, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Sid Bedingfield, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, appears in November. White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South.

Matthew Pressman is co-editing a volume tentatively titled The Saturday Evening Post Goes to War, examining the history of the magazine’s coverage of conflict. Please view the complete CFP here and consider submitting a proposal or sharing with others. Proposals are due February 14, 2022. Email matthew.pressman@shu.edu with any questions!

Owen Johnson, an associate professor emeritus at Indiana University, will be participating in two events in November: a panel on World War II correspondents with Ray Boomhower of the Indiana Historical Society on November 6 at the Ernie Pyle World War II Museum in Dana, Ind.; and a 75th anniversary Zoom celebration of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University on November 18 on Zoom.