Journalism History

Nancy Unger of Santa Clara University discusses a Wisconsin suffragist once called “the most consistent supporter of equal rights of all the women of her time” but whose legacy is often overshadowed by her husband’s.

Scholar Amy Easton-Flake discusses literary works in The Revolution and The Woman’s Journal, newspapers that suffragists started themselves to promote their cause.

For decades, a powerful countermovement worked to prevent women from getting the right to vote. As researcher Teri Finneman explains, many of those protesters were actually women preventing the expansion of their own rights.

The nation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote in 2019 and 2020. Linda Lumsden of the University of Arizona discusses a historiographic perspective on the state of suffrage and the media research.

First ladies expert Maurine Beasley discusses why press coverage of first ladies matters, providing insight into Eleanor Roosevelt and more recent first ladies.

This episode features advice on incorporating oral histories into research that will ultimately get published. This panel from the 2018 American Journalism Historians conference features David Caruso, Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Nicholas Hirshon and Ford Risley.

Author Mike Sweeney discusses his research on a newspaper reporter who came to symbolize the rights of journalists to unionize without fear of retaliation in 1934.

This panel from the 2018 American Journalism Historians conference discusses mentoring strategies that have worked and that haven't when directing a historical dissertation or thesis.

Panelists included Maurine Beasley, Julie Hedgepeth Williams, Earnest Perry, Rachel Grant and David R. Davies, with moderation by Bernell Tripp.

Author Greg Borchard discusses his book Lincoln Mediated and the complex relationship between the president and the press during the Civil War.