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Newsletter of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication On to Minneapolis! Early registration for the 2016 AEJMC Conference in Minneapolis ends July 8. The dates are August 4-7 (with Pre-Conference workshops on Wednesday, August 3). The conference theme: Innovate, Integrate, Engage. Accepted papers from the History Division are listed in Mike Sweeney’s column inside on p. 5. Congratulations, all. History Division Program on p. 6. Prof. Finis Dunaway’s book, Seeing Green, won the History Division’s Book Award for 2016. An excerpt begins on Page 13.

PF&R Column I PAGES 3-4 AEJMC Conference Papers List I PAGE 5, 7 2016 Conference Program I PAGE 6-7 Membership Column I PAGE 8 NOTES FROM THE CHAIR The Periodical Room For a more inclusive history Essay I PAGE 9 A few months ago, I visited the Ar- and the study of the sea turtle. What Graduate Liaison chie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research was not mentioned in the film, or really Column I PAGE 10 in nearby Mel- at the Center, was Marjorie Harris Carr. Kimberly Wilmot bourne, Flori- Yet without her, Archie Carr would not Teaching Standards Voss da. The Center have achieved as much professionally or Column I PAGES 11-12 included a short personally. They had a 50-year scientific film about the partnership and a marriage that pro- 2016 Book Award Winner acclaimed scien- duced five children. Announcement I PAGE 12 tist for whom the The story of Archie Carr’s wife can Seeing Green Center is named be found in Peggy Macdonald’s book, Book Excerpt I PAGE 13-15, 18 and it included Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of a clip featuring Florida’s Environment. Marjorie Carr News and Notes Chair his son. There was an educated scientist who published Roundup I PAGES 16-18 were stories about scholarship of her own yet encouraged University of Central Media Engagement Day Florida Carr’s impact on the description of her as a “housewife the environment See Voss I Page 2 Column I PAGE 19 2 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA Voss Continued from Page 1 pectations of the past. We should strive Nelson said of Henrietta to a friend: to be more inclusive in our research and “You know, that woman scares me.” The from Micanopy” (the small town strive to bring the marginalized up from friend noted that the words were said where the family lived) to define her the footnotes–especially for women.iii with pride. Upon her death, he mourn- in media coverage of her work in the ed both his wife and their shared byline. 1950s and 1960s. Many new conferences and publica- The work and family relationship Marjorie Carr initially worked as the tions seek to tell the stories of otherwise of these dual journalists and scientists country’s first female federal wildlife marginalized historical figures; most was familiar. (Although Henrietta and technician at the Welaka Fish Hatchery. recently was the conference Untold Nelson Poynter did not have children It was through her hatchery work that Histories at Rutgers University which together.) These partnerships are likely she met what her biographer describes expanded historical understanding. familiar to many academic families. Af- as the two great loves of Carr’s life: the “Mrs. Carr” was more than a “house- ter all, more than a third of all academ- Ocklawaha River and her future hus- wife” and understanding how she used ics are married to another academic.v band, Archibald “Archie” Carr, Jr. While her familial status is important for his- she was soon dismissed from her, her torical scholarship about women. Fur- So much of what any academic cou- life’s path had been set and she would ther, Marjorie Carr’s role was significant ple achieves is based on a division of la- become an environmental activist. for her husband’s career. She was both bor–both personally and professionally. Like Carr, many women activists of the primary caregiver for the children My husband, Lance Speere, does not the time used non-threatening language and served as an assistant–typing up often get his academic due, despite his to share their messages. Identifying notes and helping with his field work. contributions. (Lance is a journalism themselves as wives and/or mothers gave His accomplishments were a result of instructor at the University of Central them a certain sort of non-threaten- the work his wife contributed. Florida.) He has worked as my archival ing agency in spreading their message. There are numerous parallels in assistant and my copy editor. He has Marjorie Carr was a published scientist journalism history where one spouse cared for our children while I gave con- and earned a master’s degree in zoolo- gets overlooked despite contributions. ference talks or wrote on deadline. In a gy. Yet she often referred to herself as a An example can be found in Henrietta more formal role, he was the designer of “poor little housewife.” She began her conservation career at the local level in Work like Macdonald’s is examining the gendered roles of the past and how the 1950s, working with the Audubon women worked within the mediated expectations of the past. We should Society and the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs. strive to be more inclusive in our research and strive to bring the marginalized Macdonald wrote of Carr: “She suc- up from the footnotes–especially for women. ceeded in translating the complex new language of ecology to the masses. She influenced the media, which initially Poynter, the second wife of famed St. both this newsletter (for one year) and supported construction of the barge Petersburg Times publisher Nelson Poyn- the AJHA newsletter (for two years). canal as a means to foster economic ter. They co-authored editorials and she He has been my co-author in articles growth in central Florida to inform the was an associate editor at the newspaper. in Journalism and Mass Communication public about the importance of preserv- A search for Nelson Poynter reveals nu- Quarterly and an upcoming article in ing the integrity of the regional ecosys- merous sources. Little is available about American Journalism. I appreciate his tem.”i Henrietta Poynter. help and cringe when I see him treated Yet she was an originator and editor as only a spouse. To do that, she used the mediated of Congressional Quarterly. She earned The future of media history should image of the housewife despite her a 1922 journalism degree from Colum- continue to grow and add the nuance professional accomplishments, and she bia University and worked as an editor of the personal to the professional. In often referred to herself as “Mrs. Carr” at national magazines before marry- doing so, there will be a more complete or “Archie’s wife.”ii ing Nelson in 1942. She became the history and one that will add more voic- first women to serve on the American es that were previously in the margins. Work like Macdonald’s is examining Committee of the International Press For every great figure in media history the gendered roles of the past and how Institute.iv there is likely a relationship that provid- women worked within the mediated ex- ed the foundation for greatness to occur. 3 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA PF&R COLUMN Getting Funded: Grant Opportunities for Media Historians Last month, I served on a universi- writing grant applications because is only a start, and I am certain our ty committee to review grant propos- we are trained to consider multiple members know of many more op- als and select two from our institu- perspectives and communicate our portunities. I would love to see the tion to put forward ideas clearly to various stakeholders. conversation move to social media as Tracy Lucht for the National Indeed, at an NEH grant-writing we help one another identify fund- Endowment for the workshop held on my campus last ing sources that bring visibility and Humanities Sum- semester, panelists in a mock review recognition to media and journalism mer Stipend pro- session spoke to the importance of a history: gram. Presumably, dramatic introductory paragraph—a • NEH Summer Stipends: The I was asked to serve lede, in other words—that grabs deadline is Sept. 29, 2016, for on the commit- readers’ attention and makes them projects beginning in May 2017. PF&R Chair tee because I was want to know more. As research The award amount is $6,000 for Iowa State fortunate to receive universities place more emphasis on two months of full-time work. There an NEH Summer external funding, it would be wise is an option to select your primary Stipend in 2015 to for media historians to leverage our field as Communications: Journal- pursue archival research on women ability to write clearly and compel- ism and a subfield of History in broadcasters in the Midwest. Yet I lingly to bring in grants, which not your area of specialization. NEH has found myself representing another only make our work possible but shown a preference for work that has viewpoint during the discussion: that also demonstrate impact. In my the potential to reach the broader of a journalist committed to the val- experience, the fact of funding is public and for projects that include ue of communicating academic ideas more important than the amount; travel and primary research in addi- to a non-specialist audience. those who do humanistic research tion to writing. During that meeting, I • NEH Fellowships: argued—only somewhat Media and communication historians have an advantage The deadline is April 26, successfully, I’m afraid— when it comes to writing grant applications because 2017, for projects begin- that a proposal needed ning in January 2018. The to clearly articulate the we are trained to consider multiple perspectives and grant pays a stipend of project’s value for readers communicate our ideas clearly to various stakeholders. $4,200 per month for 6–12 beyond a specific academic months. The process is sim- subfield. I was surprised ilar to the Summer Stipend to find my colleagues from other should not be dissuaded from pur- application, but awards are given to disciplines less willing to recognize suing external support just because more advanced projects. that a narrowly defined project that their awards are generally lower than In addition to individual research seemed important to them might those in the sciences. grants, NEH also offers grants relat- not be immediately embraced by a A couple of years ago, the History ed to collaborative research, preser- public agency such as NEH. Yet as Division co-sponsored a pre-con- vation and access, digital human- government and nonprofit agencies ference workshop that included a ities, and public scholarship, and increasingly focus on public com- grant-writing panel. I would like to for individual faculty at Historically munication and outreach to shore continue that dialogue by suggesting Black, Tribal, and Hispanic-serving up their ever-precarious funding, several opportunities that might be colleges and universities. I would argue it is essential that a good fit for journalism and media • Gilder Lehrman Fellowships: academics make their work accessible historians (beyond what is already The deadline is typically in May, and and relevant to a broader audience. known to be available through the $3,000 award supports research Media and communication his- AEJMC and the American Journal- on American history that takes place torians have an advantage when ism Historians Association). This See Lucht I Page 4 4 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA Lucht Continued from Page 3 at archives in New York City. The documentary editing. awards are open to faculty, doctoral • The Institute for Oral History at candidates, and independent re- Baylor University offers the Charl- searchers. ton Oral History Research Grant. • The American Antiquarian The deadline is typically in April for Society offers short-term visiting interviews to be conducted over the fellowships to researchers who wish following year. The award amount is AMONG THE MEDIA to use the collection in Worchester, $3,000. Massachusetts. The deadline is Jan. This is a truncated list, of course. Editor 15, 2017, for use during a one- to Colleges and universities sometimes Doug Cumming two-month period between June offer grants for on-site use of their Washington and Lee University 1, 2017, and May 31, 2018. The collections. For example, the Lilly short-term fellowships pay $1,850 Library at Indiana University has a Design a month. Primarily for historians rich collection related to film, televi- Lindsay Cates of the eighteenth and nineteenth sion and radio, and the State His- Washington and Lee University centuries, the society’s opportunities torical Society of Missouri, housed include a fellowship that supports at Ellis Library at the University of Listserv Manager research on newspapers and maga- Missouri, is home to the National Keith Greenwood University of Missouri zines and others that support histo- Women and Media Collection. Both ries of the book and American print offer support to visiting researchers. Clio Logo culture. Most states also offer humanities Nat Newsome • The Newberry Library in Chi- support through their historical soci- Augusta State University cago offers short-term fellowships eties or offices of cultural affairs. of one month to visit the archives, Given the challenges of fundrais- which include a distinguished col- ing and maintaining public support, lection on the history of the book as these agencies are eager to partner Clio Among the Media is well as collections related to Chicago with scholars who can help them published quarterly by the History and Midwestern writers and jour- connect with their constituents Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass nalists. The deadline is usually Dec. through effective communication Communication. 15 for the following academic year. and outreach. So I say polish that The standard stipend is $2,500. The lede on your grant application and Submissions to Clio are welcome. Lester J. Cappon Fellowship sup- go for it. For general items such as paper ports up to three months’ work in calls, please send them to: Mike Sweeney at [email protected].

For membership updates to be included in “News & Notes,” please send them to Kristin Gustafson, Membership Chair, at [email protected]

Recent issues of Clio may be accessed at http://aejmc.us/history/clio/ 5 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA 26 papers accepted for AEJMC Conference Michael S. Sweeney he History Division accepted 26 papers for presentation at the annual TAEJMC conference in Minneapolis. Fifty-three papers were submitted. Eight were disqualified—one for being incomplete, and seven for containing information that identified the authors. The acceptance rate of 26 of 53 is 49 percent. The authors and their papers appear in alphabetical order. The top four papers are listed with an asterisk.

Vice Chair Georgia, “Saving Face: How the Digest: The Unknown Story Ohio University University of Georgia Survived the of American Television’s Early Integration Crisis and Maintained Chronicler and Archivist of U.S. Its Image through Stakeholder Sports.” Carol Ames, Cal State Fullerton, Management.” “Two Seminal Events in Motion Owen Johnson and Picture Public Relations History: Christopher Frear, University of Rashad Mammadov, Indiana How U.S. Court Decisions Twice South Carolina, “The Struggle to University, “Russian Journalists and Changed the Way Movies Are Describe South Carolina’s Leading the Great Patriotic War.” Publicized.” Civil Rigahts Lawyer.” Kevin Lerner, Marist College, “A Bill Anderson, Elon University, Michael Fuhlhage, Sarah Walker, Genuine Sense of Helplessness: “Labor’s Rejection: How the Nicholas Prephan, and Jade Metzger, Newsroom Ethnography and National Basketball Players Wayne State University, “News Resistance to Management Change Association Blocked Management Ecosystem during the Birth of at the New York Times in 1974.” before Congress.” the Confederacy: South Carolina Secession in Southern Newspapers.” * Tracy Lucht and Kelsey Batschelet, Elizabeth Atwood and Sara Pietrzak, Iowa State University, “’They Hood College, “Full-Court Press: Tim Gleason, University of Couldn’t Bring Me Down’: Gender How Segregationist Newspapers Wisconsin-Oshkosh, “Decade of and Agency in the Careers of Covered an Integrated Virginia High Deceit: English-Language Press Midwestern Women Broadcasters.” School Basketball Team.” Coverage of the Katyn Massacre in the 1940s.” Kyle McDaniel, University of ** Stephen Bates, University of Oregon, “The Aesthetics of Nevada-Las Vegas, “Is This the Best Kevin Grieves, Whitworth Historiophoty: Ken Burns and the Philosophy Can Do? Henry R. Luce University, “Cowboy Songs from Origins of Visual Effects in the and the Commission on Freedom of the Cold War Adversary: Listening Historical Documentary.” the Press.” to RIAS as portrayed in the East German Press.” James Mueller, University of Kris Boyle, Brigham Young North Texas, “Missing the Story University, “War of Words: A Joe Hayden, University of Memphis, at Gettysburg: Reporters Ignore a Comparative Contextual Analysis of “Witness to War: Newsreel Possibly Decisive Cavalry Fight.” Newspaper Coverage of the Battle of Photographer Arthur Menken.” Kontum.” Daniel Haygood, Elon University, LaShonda Eaddy, University of “Tel Ra Productions & TeleSports See Sweeney I Page 10 6 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA

AEJMC History Division 2016 Program

Thursday, August 4 | 8:15-9:45 p.m. Paper session: “Wartime Journalism” Moderating: Doug Cumming, Washington & Lee University

Discussant: Tim Vos, University of Missouri James Mueller, University of North Texas, “Missing the Story at Gettysburg: Reporters Ignore a Possibly Decisive Cavalry Fight” Timothy Roy Gleason, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, “Decade of Deceit: English-Language Press Coverage of the Katyn Massacre in the 1940s” Owen V Johnson, Rashad Mammadov, Indiana University, “Russian Journalists and the Great Patriotic War” Kris Boyle, Brigham Young University, “War of Words: A Comparative Contextual Analysis of newspaper coverage of the Battle of Kontum”

Thursday, August 4 | 1:30-3:00 p.m. History Division High-Density Refereed Papers Moderating: Ross Collins, North Dakota State University

Discussant: Gwyn Mellinger, Xavier University Kevin Grieves, Whitworth University, “Cowboy Songs from the Cold War Adversary: Listening to RIAS as portrayed in the East German Press” THIRD-PLACE FACULTY PAPER Elizabeth Atwood, Sara Pietrzak, Hood College, “Full-Court Press: How Segregationist Newspapers Covered an Integrated Virginia High School Basketball Team” Perry Parks, Michigan State University, “Silent Spring, Loud Legacy: How Elite Media Helped Establish an Environmentalist Icon” Michael Fuhlhage, Sarah Walker, Nicholas Prephan, Jade Matzger, Wayne State University, “News Ecosystem During the Birth of the Confederacy: South Carolina Secession in Southern Newspapers” Carol Ames, California State University, Fullerton, “Two Seminal Events in Motion Picture Public Relations History: How U.S. Court Decisions Twice Changed the Way Movies Are Publicized” Bill Anderson, Elon University, “Labor’s Rejection: How the National Basketball Players Association blocked management before Congress” Kevin Lerner, Marist College, “A Genuine Sense of Helplessness: Newsroom Ethnography and Resistance to Management Change at the New York Times in 1974” Ronald Rodgers, University of Florida, “The Social Awakening and the Soul of News” Stephen Perry, Regent University, “The Sponsor’s Fight for Audience: A 1930s Radio Case Study” Chad Painter, Eastern New Mexico University, “Write on: An Analysis of the Role of the Underground Press in Three Cities” 7 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA

Friday, August 5 | 8:15-9:45 a.m. Paper Session: “Tools of the Trade: Storytellers’ Skills, Past and Present” Moderating: David Davies, University of Southern Mississippi

Discussant: Dean Smith, High Point University Denitsa Yotova, University of Maryland, College Park, “George G. Foster’s Urban Journalism as an Antecedent to Muckraking,” Samantha Peko, Ohio University, “Ada Patterson: ‘The Nellie Bly of the West’” Joe Hayden, University of Memphis, “Witness to War: Newsreel Photographer Arthur Menken”

Friday, August 5 | 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Paper Session: Top Paper Presentations

Moderating: Teri Finneman, South Dakota State University Stephen Bates, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, “Is This the Best Philosophy Can Do? Henry R. Luce and the Commission on Freedom of the Press” FIRST-PLACE FACULTY PAPER Tracy Lucht, Kelsey Batschelet, Iowa State University, “ ‘They Couldn’t Bring Me Down’: Gender and Agency in the Careers of Midwestern Women Broadcasters” SECOND-PLACE FACULTY PAPER Ken Ward, Aimee Edmondson, Ohio University, “The Espionage Conviction of Kansas City Editor Jacob Frohwerk: ‘A Clear and Present Danger’ to the United States” THIRD-PLACE STUDENT PAPER Rich Shumate, University of Florida, “Framing Barry Goldwater: The Extreme Reaction to His 1964 ‘Extremism’ Speech” FIRST-PLACE STUDENT PAPER

Friday, August 5 | 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. History Division Poster Session Discussant: Kate Edenborg, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Presenters: LaShonda Eaddy, University of Georgia, “Saving Face: How the University of Georgia Survived the Integration Crisis and Maintained Its Image through Stakeholder Management” Christopher Frear, University of South Carolina, “The Struggle to Describe South Carolina’s Leading Civil Rights Lawyer” Yin Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Who Has Authority? The Construction of Collective Memory in Hong Kong Protest” Daniel Haygood, Elon University, “Tel Ra Productions & TeleSports Digest: The Unknown Story of American Television’s Early Chronicler and Archivist of U.S. Sports”

Saturday, August 6 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. History Division Business Meeting 8 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA MEMBERSHIP COLUMN History Division Membership Year-in-Review

In the Autumn 2015 issue of Clio, Teri though reorganized by affiliation, to our • Finally, in an effort to raise the Finneman and I as Membership Co- Facebook page. As a result, we received profile of journalism history generally, Chairs outlined several initiatives that updated information from members, Teri embarked on the ambitious Media we hoped would raise the profile of the and we hope to see this member list History Engagement week, which History Division and would encourage updated and shared annually. We would took place the first week of April. The Carrie Teresa scholars to pursue also like to see the Division conceive of first Media History Engagement Week membership in it. a network or platform in which we can attracted participants from 20 states and Our list included upload and share biographical informa- six countries who used the #headlinesin- the organization of a tion and research interests. Existing plat- history to promote and share journalism comprehensive mem- forms such as Wordpress or Academia. history projects. The Twitter initiative ber list, the promo- edu could be useful to this end. resulted in 478 posts from 161 people, tion of the work of reaching their combined 92,000 Twitter our members in both • We continued both the Genera- followers. International posts came from Clio and on social tions of Scholars series and the News Canada, England, Sweden, Pakistan, Niagara media, and empha- & Notes column, both to great success. South Korea, and Australia. The inau- University sizing the importance In addition to these Clio inclusions, we gural Media History Engagement week of journalism history also promoted member news on our was a resounding success, and we would in higher education. Facebook page, which contributed to a love to see it continue to gain momen- We believed that these efforts would vibrant, ongoing discourse on the page tum with continued participation from begin to address some of the discussions where members freely shared news, AEJMC History Division members. we as a Division had at the 2015 AE- information, interesting articles, and JMC conference concerning declining research ideas on a regular basis. The I will be stepping down from her membership. In support of these efforts, Facebook page has been indispensible position as Membership Co-chair at we made the following inroads during to its members, and we hope to see it this year’s AEJMC conference to focus our term: continue to thrive. We also hope to add on my book project. Teri Finneman one more regular column to the Mem- will continue her tenure as Member- • The Winter 2015 issue of Clio bership arsenal: a Member Spotlight in ship Chair. We thank you, members, contained a comprehensive list of which the membership chair interviews for helping us to raise the profile of the History Division members organized one notable Division member on a spe- AEJMC History Division. by last name. We posted the same list, cial project or accomplishment. 9 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA The Periodical Room n the 1920s, according to the sign issues I wanted. Sorry, none outside the heavy door, DeWitt of the microfilm machines Wallace spent countless hours were available in this room. inI the high-ceilinged sanctum with- I was directed to yet anoth- in, reading and condensing magazine er room down more long articles. This was how he filled Reader’s hallways. Digest, the unorthodox little magazine Have my students ever he and his wife, Lila, had launched in used a microfilm machine? 1922, their only child. At first, they I doubt it. It took a while didn’t bother with advertising or writers to get that giant toaster or illustrators. It was all about circu- working. The Post, once the lation, which by 1946 reached about most popular magazine in The DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room in the main building of the eight million. Reader’s Digest became the America, was running some New York Public Library. Photo by Doug Cumming most widely read magazine in the world. pretty good articles in ’67 These were grand buildings, the I brought my magazine class of 14 on a fire-fight in Vietnam, by an Ameri- Puck Building, Harper’s, the Look undergraduates to this Periodical Room can soldier who was in the middle of it, Building, Herald Square, Time-Life of the main New York Public Library and on the Mamas and the Papas. The Building, the Hearst Building. Some building on 5th Avenue. It’s an awesome magazine would be dead within two are still around, re-purposed. Time Inc. space, although there were no mag- years. Back in the old periodical room, has moved downtown. The Art Deco azines in sight. Instead, almost every four very heavy volumes of Look had ar- Hearst Building has become the base of wooden chair lined up on both sides of rived. I found a full-page ad from the ad a dazzling 44-floor glass tower clad in long tables was occupied by someone bureau of the Magazine Publishers As- diamond-shaped facets. We would hear working on a MacBook. My students sociation. Here was the desperate pitch from the head of magazine marketing sized up the place in a jiffy, and with from America’s last great general interest in that building the next day, and the my bemused permission left the room magazines: “The magazine is a treasury students would be given good news and the building for free time in the of contemporary ideas and information. about Hearst’s peak profits last year, city. With their iPhones in hand, they It is traditional in its consistent quality from using multiple platforms nimbly had better things to do than waste time from one issue to the next. It is modern and targeting native advertising. in this silent tomb of twentieth century in its treatment of an infinite variety of Magazines, it seems, will survive. print culture. subjects. It is influential in its continu- But something troubles me about how But I took the road less traveled by. I ous introduction of new thoughts, styles sluggish I felt trying to dig into the asked at the window for copies of some and trends.” A photograph of a young great magazines of the past. I don’t magazines from 1967. Sorry, the man woman who might have just arrived in blame my students for getting out of said, we keep only recent issues here. He Manhattan right out of Sarah Lawrence, the New York Public Library as fast as sent me walking down a long hallway thoughtfully drinking something dark they could. It’s a beautiful building, but to the room with old periodicals. There, through a straw at an outdoor table. in their world it’s a dead tomb of dead researchers at tables and microfilm “Her presence creates a stir,” the caption books and magazines that aren’t even machines were digging their gopher says. “Conversations pause. Activities out in the open. As the man at Hearst holes into history, but still I didn’t see cease.” would tell us, with an iPhone you don’t any magazines. I asked at the desk for The conversations resumed, the want advertising or irrelevant content. The Saturday Evening Post and Look activities picked up, the magazines died, You want what you want, when you from ancient times when Joan Didion time marched on. What was that about? want it. How many “snap”? he asked, and George Leonard were writing about I went back to the DeWitt Wallace meaning Snapchat. All 14 raised their Haight-Ashbury for those magazines. Periodical Room to contemplate, once hands. And how many regularly read First, I needed to fill out the form for more, what David Sumner’s book calls magazines? A tentative pause, and only a library card. Done. Then I needed to The Magazine Century. The majestic about half the hands went up. And this fill out a request for the bound copies room has thirteen murals of the great was for a class called “The Magazine: of Look for the years I wanted. Done. magazine publishing houses in Man- Past, Present and Future.” It would be up from the vaults . . . in hattan, part of the room’s restoration in • Doug Cumming about 40 minutes. Meanwhile, here’s the 1983 underwritten by DeWitt Wallace Washington & Lee University microfilm for the Saturday Evening Post legacy funds. 10 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA

GRAD STUDENTS Making the Most of Summertime With the summer upon us, now is a going to look at once you are there— the “summer” never really starts—the good time to consider how best to use will speed up the research, making your spring semester ends, and then compre- the summer months for research and trip worthwhile. Even if you are utiliz- hensive exams or a research trip opens writing. Whether you’re a master’s or ing a local research archive or an online the summer months. Getting work doctoral student, or even a professor, source, make a schedule well in advance. done during the summer is essential. the summer is not Research trips will require money, so Whether pursuing a tenure-track Robert Greene II so much a break as (for next summer, anyway) keep an eye position, or work outside the academic a make-or-break out during the fall and spring semesters world, scholars work year-round. But time. Utilizing the for research grants, summer fellowships, taking a vacation and achieving a work- summer months and awards that can aid in traveling. life balance during the summer is also for scholarly work In addition to a research schedule, important. A rested, satisfied student is important. But a writing schedule is also necessary does more—and better—work than maintaining a for making good use of the summer someone who is burned out, exhausted, balance between months. Without classes or weekly and stressed. Graduate Liaison work and down meetings with fellow students, it is easy Your research and writing schedule University of South time during the to lose track of a work schedule. Setting needs to be healthful, and doable. Just Carolina summer ensures up a writing schedule in advance—with as important, of course, is to maintain getting even more goals in mind for how many paragraphs, a healthy work-life balance. Be with work done during pages, or number of words per day— family or friends on special days. (Note: the summer and fall. will make the summer months produc- Father’s Day is June 19.) Take a vacation Setting up a research schedule before tive. to a beach or enjoy a day in the park. the summer begins is important to this While being productive is important, Read a wonderful novel during your process. Having an idea of where you it is also important to make use of down down time. Balance is the key. need to do research—and what you are time. For many graduate students,

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Chad Painter, Eastern New Mexico “The Sponsor’s Fight for Audience: A Conviction of Kansas City Editor University, “Write On: An Analysis 1930s Radio Case Study.” Jacob Frohwerk: ‘A Clear and Present of the Role of the Underground Danger’ to the United States.” Press in Three Cities.” Ronald Rodgers, University of Florida, “The Social Awakening and Yin Wu, University of Wisconsin- Perry Parks, Michigan State the Soul of News.” Madison, “Who Has Authority? The University, “Silent Spring, Loud Construction of Collective Memory Legacy: How Elite Media Helped * Rich Shumate, University of in Hong Kong Protest.” Establish an Environmentalist Icon.” Florida, “Framing Barry Goldwater: The Extreme Reaction to His Denitsa Yotova, University of Samantha Peko, Ohio University, 1964 ‘Extremism’ Speech.” TOP Maryland, “George G. Foster's “Ada Patterson: ‘The Nellie Bly of STUDENT PAPER. Urban Journalism as an Antecedent the West.’” to Muckraking.” * Ken Ward and Aimee Edmondson, Stephen Perry, Regent University, Ohio University, “The Espionage 11 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA TEACHING STANDARDS A course in African American history goes north-and hits home When Sid Bedingfield moved from said. “There is great concern here.” attended together at Harvard Univer- South Carolina to take a job in Min- Bedingfield used these data to drive sity’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, “Afri- nesota, he soon this point home for his students. can American Struggles for Freedom Kristin L. Gustafson realized that the • Median income among black and Civil Rights, 1865–1965.” The Teaching Standards students in the households in the Twin Cities de- National Endowment for Humanities Chair new state faced clined from $31,500 in 2013 to Institute for College Teachers fund- a gap in their $27,500 in 2014, which is close ed the four-week class that immersed knowledge of to the bottom U.S. history, nationally and especially the compared to an Bedingfield proposed revising the South Carolina course African Ameri- overall medi- to fit the needs of the Minnesota students. It was “a way can history that an income of to help bring diversity to the curriculum in a big way in was unfamiliar to $61,400. a sense that the whole course is about African American University of him. Bedingfield • Poverty rates Washington Bothell had a tool to among Twin history and mass media.” address this. But Cities’ African it needed to be Americans are estimated at 38 them in history. Instructors included adapted. percent. Waldo Martin, Patricia Sullivan, Eric These were “smart, well-educated • The percentage of people of color Foner, Steven Hahn, Kevin Boyle, Leon kids” who told him that they knew little in the Twin Cities is about 25 Litwack, Gerald Early, Bettye-Collier about the Abolitionist Movement, Re- percent, up from about 1 percent Thomas, Dorothy Burnham, Margaret construction, lynching, Brown v. Board in 1960. Statewide the percentage Burnham, Esther Cooper Jackson, Peter of Education, and Jim Crow. “I think of people of color is 19 percent Guralnick, Raymond Gavins, Kimberly they thought that African American and projected to reach 25 percent Phillips, and Paniel Joseph. history was something that happened in 2035. Bedingfield proposed revising the elsewhere,” he said of his students at So to help the Minnesota students South Carolina course to fit the needs the University of Minnesota School of connect the past to the present, Be- of the Minnesota students. It was “a way Journalism and Mass Communication. dingfield redesigned a class that he to help bring diversity to the curric- They identified as progressive and felt once taught in South Carolina. Success ulum in a big way in a sense that the immersed in a forward-looking com- depended on making it local. whole course is about African American munity. This history, though, “was not a history and mass media.” He adapted Minnesota issue.” Digging deeper the new class, “Case Study: The African Bedingfield knew it was a Minneso- Bedingfield grew up in the Deep American Freedom Struggle and the ta issue, both in the state’s past and in South. The majority of his students in Mass Media,” within curriculum orient- its present. African American history South Carolina were African Americans. ed toward media in American history was especially relevant now because of He and they shared base knowledge of and law. He took things out; he added Civil Rights things to fit. The idea was to have these history. He students who had not studied African Bedingfield knew it was a Minnesota issue, both in the state’s past and Kathy American history, and especially local and in its present. African American history was especially relevant Roberts Forde African American history, to dig deeper, developed he said. The class also introduced mass now because of changing demographics in the Twin Cities and and taught a communication to students outside the statewide and increasing inequality in education and income. class for those school who were interested in African South Caro- American history. lina students. His nearly all-white class of 48 changing demographics in the Twin It built on that base knowledge. She students studied the “larger history” of Cities and statewide and increasing in- taught it first; then he taught it. African American and U.S. history equality in education and income. “The They had developed the course gap is growing and not shrinking,” he during a 2011 summer fellowship they See Gustafson I Page 12 12 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA

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and mass media. Students engaged dents researched local issues. Focusing coverage of the battle to get this home each class period with secondary and on national and local at the same time on the National Historic Register. primary sources. For example, the first helped students see recurring historical Bedingfield used a two-part module week of the semester focused on popular issues. to get them into primary sources. First a culture and historical memory, using Bedingfield’s students explored civil research librarian came and did a review chapters from Patrick Washburn’s book rights and African American history of common newspaper and magazine on the early Black Press, clips from “right here in Minnesota” for their re- databases. “I wanted students to see how Selma, and an excerpt from two primary search project. They worked to explore a easy it was to explore primary sources.” sources—the Appeal and Freedom’s Jour- history they had not understood before Second, students used the Minneso- nal. Students studied the Abolitionist and to drill down to what is happening ta History Center and its civil rights Press and slave resistance in Antebellum today. He said that the students were section as a leaping off point to look at America, the Civil War and Reconstruc- “intrigued and surprised” by their local how students could find primary sources tion, the rise of Jim Crow and the role history. concerning state and metro issues. This of the press in the Wilmington Riot, One project focused on the Rhondo demystified primary sources for them lynching and media, W.E.B. Du Bois, neighborhood and the destruction of “and showed that many useful ones are Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, this middle-class black neighborhood merely a click away—if you know where The Birth of a Nationand black pro- to make way for a freeway. The student to look,” he said. test, the Chicago Defender, the Harlem studied it from the perspective of how As journalism educators and media Renaissance, the Great Migration, the mainstream media depicted this in the historians, we have excellent classroom Communist Party, the New Deal, the 1960 and 1970s, framing it as progress practices and curriculum designs like Black Press, sedition and the “Dou- and replacing slums with transit. This the one discussed here to share with one ble V” campaign during World War was “eye opening to students,” he said. another. As teaching chair, I continue to II, Brown v. Board of Education and Another project focused on a 1930 invite you to share your best practices school desegregation, Martin Luther case of a black family who bought a that encourage pedagogies of diversity, King Jr., the Freedom Riders, and Times home in South Minneapolis and were collaboration, community, and justice. v. Sullivan. attacked by mobs of white people who Send them to me at [email protected]. Alongside this national history, stu- rejected them. The students studied

2016 HISTORY DIVISION BOOK AWARD WINNER The 2016 AEJMC History Division Book Award, honoring the best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2015, has been won by Finis Dunaway for his Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images (University of Chicago Press). An associate professor of history at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Dunaway is also the author of Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

A panel of three distinguished media historians chose Seeing Green from a field of 20 entries. The judges praised Dunaway’s “persuasive historical analysis that relies on extensive archival research and examination of a vast trove of media images documenting and promoting the environmental movement and its issues across time.” Seeing Green argues that these media images have served paradoxical ends, increasing public awareness and concern about environmental threat while consistently suggesting inadequate solutions that focus on personal rather than structural, systemic change.

Dunaway, who will receive a plaque and a cash prize, has been invited to speak about his work during the History Division business meeting on Saturday, August 6 (12:15 – 1:30 p.m.) at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention in Minneapolis.

For an excerpt from the Seeing Green, please see page 13. 13 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA BOOK EXCERPT The Power and Limits of Environmentalism’s Media Images From Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images By Finis Dunaway Editor's Note: Finis Dunaway, an associate professor of American Studies at Trent University in Petersborough, Ontario, Canada, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is the author of Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of Environmental Images (University of Chicago Press, 2015), which won this year’s History Division Book Award. The following excerpt is an edited version of the book’s Introduction.

Finis Dunaway Despite the important insights yielded by these approaches, such histories have failed to consider the crucial role images have played in the making of popular environmentalism. While traditional histories focus on political struggles, legislative reforms, and scientific writ- ings, this book moves beyond conven- ertain images stand out as tional sources to place media images at mental crisis visible to a mass public, icons of American environ- the center of its analysis. Rather than they have often masked systemic causes mentalism: a 1971 public presenting pictures as mere illustrations, and ignored structural inequalities. serviceC announcement featuring the as passive mirrors that simply reflect his- Deflecting attention from corporate “Crying Indian,” who sheds a tear in torical change, I instead consider images and government responsibility, popular response to litter and pollution; the as active rhetorical agents. Media images images have instead emphasized the idea cooling towers of Three Mile Island, site do not simply illustrate environmental that individual Americans are person- of a notorious nuclear power accident politics, but also shape the bounds of ally culpable for pollution and other in 1979; the sorrowful spectacle of public debate by naturalizing particular environmental problems. The visual oil-soaked otters and birds following meanings of environmentalism. As they media have thus offered environmental- the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill; and, more draw a broader public of media con- ists a double-edged sword: Images have recently, Al Gore delivering his glob- sumers into popular environmentalism, helped them popularize their cause, but al-warming slide show in An Inconve- images act as both revelations and veils, have also distorted their ideas by por- nient Truth. These images, and others creating tensions between what they vi- traying their movement as a moralistic like them, have helped make environ- sualize and what they hide, which ideas crusade to absolve the nation of its guilt. mental consciousness central to Ameri- they endorse and which they deny. Ultimately, this dual focus on specta- can public culture. Seeing Green shows how popular cles of crisis and individual consumer If you look through most histories environmentalism has been entwined choices has hidden underlying causes of environmentalism, though, you with mass-media spectacles of crisis. and structural solutions behind a veil of will find few of these images. Standard This fusion of politics and spectacle has inattention. accounts of the movement empha- encouraged Americans to see themselves Beginning with radioactive fallout size the growth of local and national as part of a larger ecological fabric, and and pesticides during the 1960s and organizations, the contributions of key to support personal and political change ending with global warming today, this thinkers and activists, or the impact to protect the environment. Yet, even as of environmentalism on public policy. media images have made the environ- See Dunaway I Page 14 14 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA Dunaway Continued from Page 13 environmentalism, I identify a recurring actions in daily life. I argue that the pattern in popular imagery: a focus on visual media function as an important book looks at a wide array of media children as emotional emblems of the technology of environmental citizen- images—including pictures in popular future. Children have long played an ship, and I ask how various images have magazines, television news, advertise- important symbolic role in other reform enlarged, restricted, or otherwise de- ments, cartoons, films, and political efforts—from Progressive Era campaigns fined the scope of ecological rights and posters—to explain how dominant ideas against child labor to civil rights protests responsibilities in modern America. of environmentalism became naturalized in the 1960s—yet their frequent pres- Popular imagery of universal vulner- through repetition. Rather than focus ence in environmental imagery requires ability has often been paralleled by the on one genre of representation, such as its own explanation. Within the context notion of universal responsibility: the photojournalism or Hollywood film, of popular environmentalism, children’s idea that all Americans are equally to I decided to take a broader view and bodies provide a way to visualize the blame for causing the environmental consider the cross-fertilization of ideas largely invisible threats of radiation, tox- crisis. Rather than making demands and motifs across a variety of upon the state to ensure mainstream media sourc- Ultimately, this dual focus on spectacles of crisis and individual citizen rights to a clean, es. This approach not only safe environment, this registers the intertextual consumer choices has hidden underlying causes and structural dimension of environ- experience of audiences solutions behind a veil of inattention. mental citizenship focuses who encounter visual on the private sphere of images in diverse forms home and consumption and contexts, but also reveals and frames personal the overarching themes and tropes that icity, and other environmental dangers. actions—including recycling, energy have shaped the dominant meanings of The vulnerable child—usually, and conservation, and green consumerism— popular environmentalism. not coincidentally, a white child—be- as essential to saving the planet. This Seeing Green emphasizes three broad came a key visual motif to project a emphasis on individual action often themes often missing from other sense of universal vulnerability. This obscures the role of corporations and histories: the emotions and public life, equation of whiteness with universal governments in making the produc- the shifting meanings of environmen- danger has made environmental prob- tion decisions that result in large-scale tal citizenship, and the limits of media lems appear to transcend race and class environmental degradation. Appeals representation. divisions. Although the poor and racial to individual responsibility emerged in First, I show how the public life of minorities have often been exposed to tandem with the rise of popular envi- environmentalism has depended upon higher levels of pollutants and toxicity, ronmentalism, and began to circulate the power of media imagery to evoke media images have repeatedly imagined widely during the period surround- audience emotion and give visible form the citizenry as being equally vulnerable ing the first Earth Day in 1970. In to fear, guilt, hope, and other envi- to environmental risk. By depicting recent decades, with the advance of ronmental feelings. Emotions are not white bodies as signs of universal vulner- neoliberalism—meaning the revival of peripheral to politics and public life, but ability, this imagery has mobilized envi- classic, eighteenth-century liberalism’s rather play an active role in galvanizing ronmental concern but has also masked focus on free markets and deregula- environmental concern. Although it the ways in which structural inequities tion—this model of environmental is common to view reason and emo- produce environmental injustice. citizenship based on green consumerism tion as diametrical opposites, popular has become increasingly triumphant. images have fostered politically-charged, Environmental ‘Citizenship’ American environmental citizenship— scientifically-informed feelings about The popular discourse of universal especially the lopsided faith in personal the environmental crisis. By exploring vulnerability relates to my second focus, action and green consumerism—has the fusion of fact and feeling in environ- on the meanings of environmental been powerfully transacted through mental icons, this book questions the citizenship. I use this term to denote the visual images that imagine the political supposed separation between cognition ecological rights and responsibilities of world in an individualist frame, that and emotion and shows how scientific citizens: from state policies that prom- mobilize feelings of fear and guilt to knowledge has often been conveyed ise to protect people from toxicity and instill a sense of personal responsibility through visual spectacle.i other environmental risks to individuals for the environment. In tracing the emotional history of engaging in ecologically responsible See Dunaway I Page 15 15 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA

Dunaway Continued from Page 14 the threat of a meltdown at Three Mile over energy issues in the 1970s to strug- Island—that they have obscured the gles against toxicity and pesticides in the Popular framings of environmental- long-term risks associated with other 1980s and beyond, they have repeatedly ism that link emotions to citizenship environmental hazards. Moreover, even lead directly to this book’s third major when the mainstream media warns theme: the limits of media represen- of long-term, accretive problems, the tation. Even as visual images provide proposed solutions often short-circuit important resources for democratic time by imagining quick, immediate politics, they also work to constrict the strategies—consumer actions, technical imagination of the political world. Even fixes, or piecemeal legislative reforms— as they expand conceptions of citizen- to overcome the crisis. ship to include environmental rights and responsibilities, they often narrow Challenging the Discourse the scope of action to emphasize im- The limiting power of visual media mediate reforms or consumer decisions has been particularly acute for environ- proposed large-scale changes that have and thus foreclose on other possibilities mental thinkers and activists who reject tended to be mocked or marginalized by for change. Finally, even as they pub- the rhetoric of universal vulnerability the mainstream media. This process of licize moments of crisis, media images and responsibility to emphasize instead filtering out—or altogether ignoring— often detach dramatic episodes from the the power relations that structure envi- far-reaching proposals for environmen- broader contexts and timescales of eco- ronmental problems. Media framings tal change demonstrates a significant logical danger. Looking closely at how that imagine everyone as being equally limit of media imagery. Ultimately, the images negotiate three crucial issues— susceptible to ecological danger have iconic images of American environmen- environmental time, power relations, created a unifying vision of environ- talism have impeded efforts to realize— and possible solutions—reveals how the mental citizenship that overlooks envi- or even imagine—sustainable visions of media have both defined and delimited ronmental injustice. Environmentalism the future. the scope of popular environmentalism. has often been critiqued for its narrow For the past five decades, the growth Seeing Green identifies tensions within social agenda and for failing to reach be- of environmentalism has been entwined the mainstream media’s attempts to yond its primarily affluent white constit- with media spectacles of environmental frame environmental time, and consid- uency. Seeing Green seeks to understand crisis. Yet the goals and ideas of envi- ers how they have proven to be both the powerful role of the visual media in ronmental activists have not always productive and problematic for envi- helping produce this exclusionary vision corresponded with the conventions of ronmental politics. On the one hand, of popular environmentalism. Rather media coverage. From nuclear accidents visual images have played a crucial role than being straightforward reflections and oil spills to pesticide scares and in legitimating the concept of environ- of environmental values, iconic images toxic threats, depictions of crisis have mental crisis and, at times, have encour- perform crucial ideological work and heightened popular concern for partic- aged audiences to see even spectacular often marginalize radical, system-chal- ular manifestations of ecological risk, moments of catastrophe—such as the lenging perspectives. At various points but have failed to communicate more 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill—not as iso- in this book, I place mainstream images far-reaching ways to confront larger, lated or aberrant phenomena, but rather in dialogue with radical ideas and social slowly escalating problems—including as signs of an all-encompassing, gradu- movements to reveal the alternative the hazards of industrial agriculture, ally escalating calamity. Sometimes this visions that have been ignored or cast the proliferating presence of toxins in coverage has also worked to extend the aside by our image-driven public cul- the environment and in human bodies, time frame of citizenship, to invite spec- ture.ii and the ongoing, increasing dependence tators to glimpse beyond the news and Just as many environmentalists have upon non-renewable sources of energy. elections cycles and grapple with the challenged the discourse of individual The history recounted here focuses intergenerational rights of children and responsibility and have offered struc- largely on the producers of popular future Americans to a clean and sustain- tural explanations for the causes of the environmental images—including able environment. On the other hand, environmental crisis, they have also photographers, advertisers, cartoonists, certain media spectacles have concen- tried to fashion alternative visions of the filmmakers, news broadcasters, and trated so much attention on the sense future that emphasize systemic solutions of immediate danger—on, for example, to long-term problems. From debates See Dunaway I Page 18 16 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA NEWS AND NOTES Books, Awards, and Events

Membership Co-Chairs Welcome to our “News & Notes” section. Here you will find updates on our History Teri Finneman Division’s members. Please share the news—Updates, Publications, Awards, South Dakota State University Promotions, and Top Papers—that you find here. You can also share your media history research and teaching materials via our Facebook group (AEJMC History Division) Carrie Teresa and the Media History Exchange, a site that includes the 2014 AEJMC History Division Niagara University Archive.

New Positions and Luce and the Commission on Freedom Promotions of the Press.” Leonard Ray Teel, Professor Matthew Cecil has been named Emeritus, Georgia State University, has the new dean of the College of Arts received the AEJMC-Knudson Latin and Humanities at Minnesota State America Prize Award for Reporting University, Mankato. Dr. Cecil won last the Cuban Revolution: How Castro year’s AEJMC History Division Book Manipulated American Journalists. Award for Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Both Teri Finneman, assistant Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press professor at South Dakota State and the Bureau’s Image (University Press University, and W. Joseph Campbell, of Kansas, 2014). professor at American University, were Assistant professor Will Mari has finalists for the Frank Luther Mott been named Communication Studies Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass program chair at Northwest University. Communication Research Award. Dr. Sheila Webb of the School of Campbell’s 1995: The Year the Future Journalism at Western Washington Began is published by University of University has been promoted to full California Press and Dr. Finneman’s professor. Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, Julien Gorbach has accepted a 1870s-2000s: From ‘Lunatic’ Woodhull Teri Finneman’s Press Portrayals of position as assistant professor in the to ‘Polarizing’ Palin is published by Women Politicians, 1870s-2000s: From School of Communications at the Lexington Books. ‘Lunatic’ Woodhull to ‘Polarizing’ Palin University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Gorbach formerly was an assistant Grants professor at Nicholls State University. Professor Shelia Webb of Western Washington University has received a Awards grant from WWU’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs to do research Keith Greenwood, associate at the Library of Congress in June on professor at the Missouri School of the visual framing of suffragists. Journalism, has received a Writing CUNY Graduate School of Intensive Teaching Excellence Award Journalism professor Wayne Svoboda in recognition of the teaching strategies won a research grant from the State he has employed in his History of Historical Society of Iowa to support Photojournalism course. his biography of the late New York Stephen Bates , associate professor Times reporter Judy Klemesrud. He was at the Hank Greenspun School of also selected to take part in a National Journalism and Media Studies at the Security Seminar from 5-9 June 2016 University of Las Vegas, has won the AEJMC History Division Top Faculty at the Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, and participated Paper Award for his study, “Is This the W. Joseph Campbell’s 1995: The Year the Best Philosophy Can Do? Henry R. Future Began See News and Notes I Page 17 17 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA News and Notes Indiana & Midwestern History, 28(2), Boat’—with pictures of the ill-fated SS Continued from Page 16 Commodore that sank leaving Stephen 46-53. Sheila Webb recently published Crane adrift on the Atlantic.” in an educators workshop from a monograph on the beginnings of Life Carrie Teresa, assistant professor of May 10-13, 2016 at the Marine Corps magazine. Communication Studies at Niagara Recruit Depot at Parris Island, South University, has two forthcoming journal Webb, S.M. (2016). Creating publications: Life: ‘America’s Most Potent Editorial Publications Force.’ Journalism & Communication Teresa, C. “A ‘Varied or Intense Mary Cronin, associate professor Monographs, 18(2), 55–108. Existence’: Public Commemoration of in the Department of Journalism and Boxing Champion Jack Johnson.”Howard Mass Communications at New Mexico Journal of Communications. State University, has edited a book, An [Forthcoming] Indispensible Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth Century America Forthcoming Publications Teresa, C. “The Misinterpreted Grin: The Development of Discursive Knowledge (Southern Illinois University Press, An expanded second edition About Race Through Public Memory 2016), that includes contributions from of W. Joseph Campbell’s media- of Louis Armstrong.” Journal of Black AEJMC History Division members mythbusting book, Getting It Wrong, Studies [Forthcoming]. Lee Jolliffe, Erika Pribanic-Smith, is to be published by University of Paulette Kilmer, Jon Bekken, Debra California Press. The second edition Book Contracts Reddin van Tuyll, and David Bulla. will include new chapters on the first Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Kennedy-Nixon debate, the “Napalm David E. Sumner, professor emeritus Zboray, both of the Department Girl” photograph, and on Internet- of journalism at Ball State University, of Communication, University of driven bogus quotations. The first has signed a contract with the University Pittsburgh, have recently published an edition of Getting It Wrong came out of Illinois Press to publish Fumbled Call: essay that demonstrates the ubiquitous in 2010 and won that year’s Sigma The Untold Story of the Bear Bryant- and widespread personal distribution Delta Chi award for research about Wally Butts Football Scandal in 2017. of newspapers and news clippings that journalism. Dr. Campbell is professor Sumner discussed his research in a panel traveled between the homefront and of Communication Studies at American discussion at the 25th annual Georgia battlefield, east and west coasts, and University’s School of Communication. Bar Media and Judiciary Conference in Lee Jolliffe, associate professor of urban and rural settings, as well as February and presented a paper, “Bear journalism at Drake University, acted as among soldiers through lending, gifting, Bryant, Wally Butts and the Scandalous the first-ever guest editor of Journalism Telephone Call” at the North American and even enemy picket exchanges History for the Spring 2016 issue. Society of Sport History conference held during the American Civil War. The authors for the issue presented at Georgia Tech in May. Dr. Sumner papers on Adventure Journalists of has been researching this book since Zboray, R.J., & Zboray, M.S. (2016). the Nineteenth Century at the 2015 2013 and has collected primary source “Beyond the Market and the City: The meeting of the Symposium on the material from the University of Georgia Informal Dissemination of Reading 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Archives, Emory University Archives, Material during the American Civil Free Expression, held every November and National Archives and Records War” in Print Culture Histories beyond at UTC in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Administration center in Atlanta. the Metropolis, ed. James J. Connolly, et. According to Dr. Jolliffe, the issue Sumner writes a blog about his research al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, features highlights that include “the at http://footballfumble.com. 123-149. Frank Leslie’s explorer team who got Carrie Teresa, assistant professor of lost in Alaska, the circle-the-globe Communication Studies at Niagara Owen V. Johnson, Associate Professor shakedown cruise of a US Treasury University, has signed a contract with cutter that found itself leading the Emeritus, Indiana University, has co- the University of Nebraska Press Battle for Manila Bay with journalists authored an article with recent Indiana to publish Looking at the Stars: The loading the big guns on deck, Teresa University Journalism graduate Holly Development of Black-Centered Celebrity Howard Dean’s blythe intrusion into Journalism in Jim Crow America, Hays. tribal life after the massacre at Wounded 1900-1940. The book began as her Johnson, O.V., and Hays, H. Knee, Stanley before Livingstone dissertation project, which received the (2016). “Wrestling with Fame: Ernie adventuring on the Prairies, and a new American Journalism Historians Pyle & the Pulitzer Prize,” Traces of look at the three stories of ‘The Open See News and Notes I Page 18 18 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA News and Notes Continued from Page 17 Ronald J. Zboray and Mary by Silencing: When Violence is Not Saracino Zboray, Department of News,” at the Latin American Studies Association Margaret A. Blanchard Communication, University of Association International Congress on Doctoral Prize in 2015. Dr. Teresa has Pittsburgh, have given a keynote May 28 in New York. received two grants from her home address at the conference, “Serial Amber Roessner, assistant professor institution to fund archival visits to Culture-Popular Culture: Nineteenth at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the Schomburg Center for Research in Century Serial Fictions in Transnational and Carrie Teresa, assistant professor at Black Culture and Howard University’s Perspectives, 1830s to 1860s” held Niagara University, will present their co- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in by the Universität Siegen, Siegen, authored paper, “Always Already Hailed: support of Looking at the Stars. Germany, April 28-30, 2016. Their Negotiating Memory and Identity at the keynote, “Between Hamburg and Newseum” as part of the Critical and Presentations Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise Cultural Studies Division program at of Serial Fiction in the United States,” AEJMC 2016 in August. Carol Terracina-Hartman, Michigan aimed to recover the life of the Boston Berkley Hudson, associate professor State University, presented “Fanning publisher, Gleason, who, because of at the University of Missouri, along with the Flames: How Newspapers Covered his nativity in and ties to Germany Mizzou doctoral students Carlos Cortés- Ten Historically Significant Wildfires throughout the antebellum years, Martínez and Joy Jenkins presented 2003 – 2013” at Joint Journalism and infused his highly circulated, influential a paper, “Wild Animals and Forces Communication History Conference in U.S. weekly story papers (Flag of Our of Nature: The Dueling Boxing and New York City, March 12. Union; Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing- Racial Metaphors of Literary Journalists Wayne Svoboda, CUNY Graduate Room Companion) with a spirit of Alberto Salcedo-Ramos and Gay School of Journalism professor, internationalism and cosmopolitanism. Talese.” The presentation in March was moderated one panel and served as a Victoria Goff, Professor Emerita, part of the “Beyond Borders: Literary guest speaker on another while taking History and Communication at the Journalism as a Global Genre” aspect of part in a seminar at the United States University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the American Comparative Literature Miltary Academy called “West Point will present a paper, “Chile Solidarity Association’s annual conference at Veterans Invitational: Many Ways to Media Before and After the 1973 Chile Harvard University. Serve” on April 23. Coup,” as part of the panel, “Exclusion Dunaway Continued from Page 15 In certain chapters, I also consider the popularized the cause but have also left response of conservative pundits, who crucial issues outside of the frame. environmental organizations—but also have frequently lambasted the media tries to understand how consumers have for supposedly duping the public into NOTES received and responded to these imag- accepting environmentalist claims about es. I use a variety of evidence—letters the hazards of nuclear power, pesticides, 1 My argument here builds on the work of to newspaper and magazine editors, and other issues. Evoking the familiar scholars who have revised Jurgen Haber- mas’s theory of grthe public sphere by ex- film reviews, and archival sources—to dualism between reason and emotion, consider how audiences have interpreted amining the emotionality of public culture they have presented themselves as the and explaining how the public is constituted and made meaning out of environ- guardians of scientific fact and dismissed mental icons. Although I offer broad through acts of common spectatorship. See environmentalists as the hucksters of Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics assessments of audience reception, I give spectacle-driven feeling. These debates (New York: Zone Books, 2002); and Robert particular attention to the responses of between environmental activists, conser- Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No two groups: self-defined environmen- vative commentators, and other viewers Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public talists and conservative commentators. demonstrate that images have played a Culture, and Liberal Democracy (Chicago: As self-described activists, as leaders of vital and contested role in the public life University of Chicago Press, 2007). environmental organizations, or as in- of environmentalism. 2 For critiques of environmentalism, see, fluential writers and thinkers, environ- By presenting the history of envi- mentalists have formed a distinct group among others, Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the ronmentalism as a complex layering of Spring: The Transformation of the American of media consumers who have frequent- cultural, political, and visual practices, ly challenged and critiqued mainstream Environmental Movement (Washington: Seeing Green explains how images have Island Press, 1993). depictions of their cause.

19 I SUMMER 2016 CLIO: AMONG THE MEDIA Media History Engagement Day

The first Media History Engagement Some of the 478 Week, April 4-8, attracted participants tweets on the from 20 states and #headlinesinhistory Teri Finneman six countries in the Twitter account Membership Co-Chair #headlinesinhistory during Media History Engagement Week. Twitter discussion. Having a week to recognize media history was the work of a subcom- mittee of AEJMC South Dakota State History Division and AJHA members who want to bring more national publicity to our work. Throughout the week, our members and their students across the country (and world) tweeted #headlinesinhistory to share why journalism history matters and shared special class projects about Recent Murray journalism history. State graduate The Twitter initiative resulted in 478 Alex Hilkey with poster on posts from 161 people, reaching their advertising exutive combined 92,000 Twitter followers. Helen Lansdowne International posts came from Cana- Resor. da, England, Sweden, Pakistan, South Korea, and Australia. In addition, two of Melony Shem- berger’s graduate students won awards for their Media History Engagement Week posters during Murray State University's Scholars Week. Iqra Ilyas won first place for her poster on public relations pioneer Betsy Plank, and Some of the Alex Hilkey won second place for her headlines-in- historical research on advertising exec- history collected utive Helen Lansdowne Resor. Twelve for the week. of Shemberger’s graduate students had their poster abstracts accepted for the prestigious Scholars Week event. Check out these photos and screen- shots from Media History Engage- ment Week.