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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.

Happy 25th anniversary to the series! See our anniversary catalog here.

See our featured title flyer here.


link to catalog page, Graphic News

Graphic News

How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

Author: Amanda Frisken
Pub Date: March 2020

Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era   learn more...

link to catalog page, Front Pages, Front Lines

Front Pages, Front Lines

Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage

Author: Edited by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch, and Brooke Kroeger
Pub Date: March 2020

The press, women, and the long road to the Nineteenth Amendment   learn more...

link to catalog page, The Enforcers

The Enforcers

How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism

Author: Rob Wells
Pub Date: November 2019

Lessons from the past and business journalism's bold future   learn more...

link to catalog page, Wired into Nature

Wired into Nature

The Telegraph and the North American Frontier

Author: James Schwoch
Pub Date: April 2018

A new American future written in dots and dashes   learn more...

link to catalog page, Becoming the Story

Becoming the Story

War Correspondents since 9/11

Author: Lindsay Palmer
Pub Date: February 2018

The dangerous new realities of reporting on war   learn more...

link to catalog page, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider

Mister Pulitzer and the Spider

Modern News from Realism to the Digital

Author: Kevin G. Barnhurst
Pub Date: Cloth: 2016; Paper: September 2018

Changes in news ideology from nineteenth-century realism to digital society   learn more...

link to catalog page, Race News

Race News

Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century

Author: Fred Carroll
Pub Date: November 2017

African American reporters covering history   learn more...

link to catalog page, Across the Waves

Across the Waves

How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio

Author: Derek W. Vaillant
Pub Date: November 2017

The static-filled history of a pioneering radio partnership between two nations   learn more...

link to catalog page, Newspaper Wars

Newspaper Wars

Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965

Author: Sid Bedingfield
Pub Date: August 2017

How journalists enlisted on both sides of the mid-century struggle   learn more...

link to catalog page, Media Localism

Media Localism

The Policies of Place

Author: Christopher Ali
Pub Date: March 2017

The way forward for regulatory support of a fundamental public good   learn more...

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