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The History of Communication


Acquiring Editor: Daniel Nasset
Series Editors: Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone

This series invites original and well-researched books on the history of media--radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, the Internet--and on their many functions as reporters, advertisers, opinion leaders, public relations for government and corporate interests, and businesses that compete with each other. Histories of major media, biographies of important figures, and studies of key events in communications are welcome. Essay collections are not encouraged.


link to catalog page , Chasing Newsroom Diversity

Chasing Newsroom Diversity

From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action

Author: Gwyneth Mellinger
Pub Date: April 2013

Missed opportunity in the newspaper industry's diversity efforts   learn more...

link to catalog page , Equal Time

Equal Time

Television and the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Aniko Bodroghkozy
Pub Date: March 2012

Televising the revolution in American civil rights   learn more...

link to catalog page , On the Condition of Anonymity

On the Condition of Anonymity

Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism

Author: Matt Carlson
Pub Date: Cloth: 2011; Paper: August 2012

The use of confidential sources during a tumultuous period in American history and journalism   learn more...

link to catalog page , The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture Author: Jared Gardner
Pub Date: May 2012

Radically revising literary history by revisiting periodicals   learn more...

link to catalog page , Saving the World

Saving the World

A Brief History of Communication for Development and Social Change

Author: Emile G. McAnany
Pub Date: April 2012

Invigorating global social change through communication   learn more...

link to catalog page , Advertising at War

Advertising at War

Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s

Author: Inger L. Stole
Pub Date: November 2012

The advertising industry's rise to power, in war and peace   learn more...

link to catalog page , Media Capital

Media Capital

Architecture and Communications in New York City

Author: Aurora Wallace
Pub Date: November 2012

The buildings and spaces of New York City's mass media landscape   learn more...

link to catalog page , Radio Utopia

Radio Utopia

Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest

Author: Matthew C. Ehrlich
Pub Date: May 2011

A stimulating study of how audio documentaries educated listeners while reflecting the political and cultural climate of post-war America   learn more...

link to catalog page , Chronicling Trauma

Chronicling Trauma

Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss

Author: Doug Underwood
Pub Date: October 2011

A searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violence   learn more...

link to catalog page , Refiguring Mass Communication Author: Peter Simonson
Pub Date: April 2010

A creative reconsideration of communication history   learn more...

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