Below are books by our members that you may want to consider using in your classes. You may also want to consider asking someone to be a guest speaker. The books are categorized for ease of viewing. However, many of these books could be used across multiple units.
Overviews
Borchard, Gregory. A Narrative History of the American Press
Borchard, Gregory A., ed. Encyclopedia of Journalism, second edition.
Collins, Ross. F., ed. Editing Across Media. Content and Process for Print and Online Publication.
Daly, Christopher. “Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism” (1704-2016)
Fellow, Anthony. American Media History
Kovarik, Bill. Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
Lauters, Amy Mattson. Navigating Visual Culture: Principles of Visual Mass Media
Mari, Will. The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960
Mindich, David. The Mediated World: A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture
Pressman, Matthew. On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
Sloan, Wm. David. The Media in America: A History
Stephens, Donna Lampkin. “‘If It Ain’t Broke, Break It’: How Corporate Journalism Killed the Arkansas Gazette”
Sumner, David E. The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900
Tucher, Andie. Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History
van Tuyll, Debra Reddin, Mark O’Brien, and Marcel Broersma, eds. Politics Culture and the Irish American Press, 1784-1963
Early Journalism
Collins, Ross, F., and E. M. Palmegiano, eds. The Rise of Western Journalism, 1815-1914.
Fosdick, Scott. Ben Franklin’s Time Machine
Garrigues, George. Marguerite Martyn: America’s Forgotten Journalist
Huntzicker, William E. The Popular Press 1833-1865
Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers
Smith, Jeffery A. Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism
Smith, Jeffery A. Franklin and Bache: Envisioning the Enlightened Republic
Civil Rights/Diversity
Alwood, Edward. Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media
Bedingfield, Sid. Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
Brooks, Sheila, and Clint Wilson. Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice
Broussard, Jinx. African American Foreign Correspondents: A History.
Carroll, Fred. Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
Coward, John M. The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90.
DiBari Jr., Michael. Advancing the Civil Rights Movement: Race and Geography of Life Magazine’s Visual Representation, 1954-1965
Forde, Kathy Roberts and Sid Bedingfield, eds., Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
Garza, Melita. They Came to Toil: Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression
Lumsden, Linda J. Social Justice Journalism: Social Movement Media from Abolition to #womensmarch
Mangun, Kimberley. A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936
Mangun, Kimberley. Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940-1975
Mellinger, Gwyneth. Chasing Newsroom Diversity: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action
Roessner, Lori Amber & Rightler-McDaniels, Jodi (eds.). Political Pioneer of the Press: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice, 1864-present
Stoner, Andrew. Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists & Homosexuality in America
Stoner, Andrew. The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts
Wickham, Kathleen. We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss
Wilson, Clint. Whither the Black Press? Glorious Past, Uncertain Future
Culture
Ehrlich, Matthew B., and Joe Saltzman, Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture
Foss, Katie. Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media & Collective Memory.
Lerner, Kevin. Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism
Engstrom, Erika, Tracy Lucht, Jane Marcellus & Kimberly Voss. Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance and Otherness
Rodgers, Ronald. The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot. The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community
Gender/Women and Journalism
Beasley, Maurine H. Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence
Beasley, Maurine H. and Sheila Gibbons, eds. Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism
Broussard, Jinx. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists
Greenwald, Marilyn S. A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism and the Career of Charlotte Curtis
Lauters, Amy Mattson. The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane, Literary Journalist
Lauters, Amy Mattson. More than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960
Lucht, Tracy. Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist
Steiner, Linda, Carolyn Kitch, and Brooke Kroeger. Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot. Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News
Law and Ethics
Banning, Stephen A. Journalism Standards of Work Today: Using History to Create a New Journalism Code of Ethics
Bates, Stephen. An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press
Coyle, Erin. The Press and Rights to Privacy: First Amendment Freedoms vs. Invasion of Privacy Claims.
Edmondson, Aimee. In Sullivan’s Shadow: The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights
File, Patrick. Bad News Travel Fast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Age
Mellinger, Gwyneth, and John P. Ferre, eds. Journalism’s Ethical Progression: A Twentieth-Century Journey
Smith, Dean. A Theory of Shield Laws: Journalists, Their Sources, and Popular Constitutionalism. (1894 to 2010)
Sumner, David. E. Fumbled Call: The Bear Bryant-Wally Butts Controversy that Split the Supreme Court and Changed American Libel Law.
Pribanic-Smith, Erika, and Jared Schroeder. Emma Goldman’s No-Conscription League and the First Amendment
Tucher, Andie. Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium
Military/War
Borchard, Gregory, and David Bulla. Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press Through Nineteenth-Century Media
Bullinger, Jonathan M. Reagan’s “Boys” and the Children of the Greatest Generation: U.S. World War II Memory, 1984 and Beyond
Collins, Ross F. Children, War and Propaganda.
Collins, Ross F. World War I. Debating the Issues.
Collins, Ross F. World War I & World War II. The European Theater (with Patrick Washburn). Volume 5, The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting.
Conway, Mike. Contested Ground: “The Tunnel’ and the Struggle Over Television News in Cold War America.
Greenwald, Marilyn S. Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War
Grieves, Kevin. Cold War Journalism – Between Cold Reception and Common Ground
Johnson, Owen V. At Home with Ernie Pyle, 1900-45
Mueller, James E. Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press and the Little Bighorn.
Sweeney, Michael S. Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II
Sweeney, Michael S. The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce
Sweeney, Michael S., and Natascha Toft Roelsgaard. Journalism and the Russo-Japanese War: The End of the Golden Age of Combat Correspondence
Sweeney, Michael S. From the Front: The Story of War Featuring Correspondents’ Chronicles
Smith, Jeffery A. War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power
van Tuyll, Debra Reddin, Nancy Dupont and Joseph R. Hayden. Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy
van Tuyll, Debra Reddin. The Confederate Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War
McNeely, Patricia G., Debra Reddin van Tuyll, and Henry S. Schulte, eds. Knights of the Quill: Confederate War Correspondents and Their Civil War Reporting
van Tuyll, Debra Reddin. The Southern Press in the Civil War
Sachsman, David, Kit Rushing, and Debra Reddin van Tuyll. The Civil War and the Press
Politics
Alwood, Edward. Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
Arif, Rauf. Movements for Change: How individuals, social media, and Al Jazeera are changing Pakistan, Egypt and Tunisia
Beasley, Maurine H. Ruby A. Black: Eleanor Roosevelt, Puerto Rico, and Political Journalism in Washington
Beasley, Maurine H. First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age
Beasley, Maurine H. and Richard Lowitt, eds. One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports the Great Depression
Beasley, Maurine H., ed. The White House Press Conferences of Eleanor Roosevelt
Burns, Lisa. Media Relations and the Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump
Conway, Mike. Contested Ground: “The Tunnel” and the Struggle Over Television News in Cold War America
Burns, Lisa. First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives
Finneman, Teri. Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s-2000s
Fuhlhage, Michael. Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War
Heckman, Meg. Political Godmother: Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party
Lumsden, Linda J. Black, White, and Red All Over: A Cultural History of the Radical Press in Its Heyday, 1900-1917
Marshall, Jon. Watergate’s Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse
Mueller, James E. Tag Teaming the Press: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Work Together to Handle the Press
Mueller, James E. Towel Snapping the Press: Bush’s Journey from Locker-Room Antics to Message Control
Parry, Pam. Eisenhower: The Public Relations President
Roessner, Lori Amber. Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign, 1970-1980
Stoner, Andrew. Campaign Crossroads: Presidential Politics in Indiana from Lincoln to Obama
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot. Women Politicking Politely: Feminists Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s
Sports
Carroll, Brian. A Devil’s Bargain: The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955
Carroll, Brian. When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball
Hirshon, Nicholas. We Want Fish Sticks: The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders
Lamb, Chris. Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Sports, Media, and the Color Line, ed.
Lamb, Chris. Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
Roessner, Lori Amber. Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America, 1880-1940
Socolow, Michael J. Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics
Washburn, Patrick, and Chris Lamb, Sports Journalism: A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology
Strategic Communication
Melillo, Wendy. How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America: A History of Iconic Ad Council Campaigns
Russell, Karen Miller. Promoting Monopoly: AT&T and the Politics of Public Relations, 1876-1941
Stoker, Kevin L. Paradox in Public Relations: A Contrarian Critique of Theory and Practice
Technology
Collins, Ross, and Keith Greenwood. Photocommunication Across Media: Beginning Photography for Professionals in Mass Media
Conway, Mike. The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s
Creech, Brian. Journalism Education for the Digital Age: Promises, Perils, and Possibilities
Liseblad, Madeleine. American Consultants and the Marketization of Television News in the United Kingdom
Mari, Will, A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies: c. 1960-90
van Tuyll, Debra Reddin and Scott Hudson. Augusta’s WGAC Radio: The Voice of the Garden City for 70 Years