Exam 1 is on Thursday

Hello. Just a reminder that your first exam is tomorrow, Thursday, as noted in your syllabus. This cannot be rescheduled.

Review the study guide and check your notes and the reading. Also, take a look through this blog.

A study guide is by definition rather general. The names on the list are a guide to help you study but not intended to cover every question. So, you should know who Eljah Lovejoy is and why he is important. Yet, because he in not on the list, I would not expect you to know the different newspapers he edited or the year he died - the specifics.

** You may not begin to take the exam after the first exam is turned in - BE ON TIME.

Bring your scantron and a pencil. Good luck!

Joe & Shirley Wershba (movie version)

Broadcast History

Here is a link to the Museum of Broadcast Communication.

Army-McCarthy Hearings

More Cold War Prop

Nixon-Kennedy Debate

Yesterday, Saturday, was the anniversary of the Nixon-Kennedy Debate. Here is a story about it.



Here is more about the significance of the debate.

Cold War Prop

Joseph Wershba clip (the person Robert Downy Jr. plays)

This week

Hello all. Just a reminder that the class’s graduate assistant Ryan will be playing the movie “Good Night, and Good Luck,” this week over both class periods. On Tuesday, you will receive a guide for the movie. On Thursday, Ryan will hand out the study guide for the first exam. We will go over chapter 10 on the following week.

I will be in Dallas this week giving talks about Dallas journalist Vivian Castleberry - we will talk about her later this semester.

If you have any questions, please email me at: voss.kimberly@gmail.com

I hope you enjoy the movie!

Good Night and Good Luck

Integration of the Armed Forces

Here is a link to documents about President Truman's integration of the armed forces.

Dorothea Lange images

This photo, Migrant Mother, is one you may have seen before in textbooks. It was shot in a California migrant labor camp in 1936.



Here is an image that was shot by Lange the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked. It is the storefront of a Japanese American business.



Here is an image Lange shot in an internment camp in San Francisco in April 1942.

Joe Rosenthal

Here is Joe Rosenthal's famous photo. Here is more information about him.

Ernie Pyle

Here are Ernie Pyle images.

Here are his wartime columns.

Returning women to the home

Here is a quote about the wartime waivers.

WW II, government records & propaganda

Here is a link to OWI Records.

Through Open Records, we learned that chef Julia Child was a spy during WW II.

Here is a list of accredited WWII women journalists.


Here is a link to government propaganda.

Radio History

Here is a good resource for the history of radio in Central Florida.

Here is an overview of early American radio history.



Yet, this researcher has questioned the true reaction to the broadcast.

WWII and Rosie the Riveter

Above is one of the best-known propaganda posters of Rosie the Riveter which aimed to get middle-class women into the workforce. Here is more about how it was used in the media.



Above is the Norman Rockwell image of Rosie - the one described in your book. Notice the difference between the magazine cover and the government version.

Magazine history

The above is the cover of 1941 Life Magazine. Google.Images has archived the covers and images from the magazine.



This a cover of a 1923 Time Magazine. Here is a link to the Time archives. Here are some covers regarding World War II.

Bell, California

Here is a link to a story about the corruption in Bell, California.

Muckrakers

Ida Tarbell wrote a series of magazine articles detailing the business practices of Standard Oil, which appeared in McClure's and later were published in book form as The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904).

Lincoln Steffens, an investigator of corruption in state and municipal governments, published Shame of the Cities in 1904.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) was largely responsible for federal legislation regulating food and drug practices.

Thomas Nast & Harper's Weekly

Here is information about Thomas Nast.

Harry Burns and the vote

Here is the column about Harry Burns that we discussed in class.

Iron Jawed Angels

Here is a link to the website for the film Iron Jawed Angels.

Here is a link to the cast information.

Iron Jawed Angels

Here is a link to the website for the film Iron Jawed Angels.

Here is a link to the cast information.

Paul Conrad has died

Political cartoonist Paul Conrad died over the weekend. He was a three time winner of the Pulitzer Prize - twice at the L.A. Times.

Elijah Lovejoy

Here is a clip from the 1837 Alton Observer.

William Lloyd Garrison

Here is information about William Lloyd Garrison.

Publick Occurences

Who is John Peter Zenger?

Here is the order for the public burning.

Key players in the Zenger Trial.