Program
The Joint Meeting
of the American Journalism Historians Association
And
The AEJMC History
Division
New York
University
Location: Registration, opening remarks and lunch: Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, New York, NY 10023. Presentation rooms: Rooms 802, 803 and 804 in the Silver Center, 24 Waverly Place, at the corner of Washington Square East (across the street from Kimberly Hall)
Conference Chair and Program Organizer: Elliot King
Loyola College in Maryland eking@loyola.edu Tel: 410-356-3943 Cell: 443-858-3731
(Conference hosted by the Department of Culture and Communication and the Department of Journalism, New York University, Site Chair: Aurora Wallace, New York University. Site Coordinator: John Breslin, Iona College)
8:30 AM-9:00 AM Registration and continental breakfast (Fee: $40, cash or checks only. Make checks payable to Loyola. College, AJHA)
Continental breakfast sponsored by Readex, publishers of
American Historical Newspapers, the most comprehensive digital resource for searching and
browsing historical American newspapers. (www.readex.com)
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM Opening Address Elliot King (Loyola College in Maryland)
9:15 AM – 10:45 PM Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables One, Two and Three
Thomas Aiello (University of Arkansas) Negroes Are Different in Dixie:
The Press, Perception, and Negro League Baseball
in the Jim Crow South
Daniel Anderson (University of Minnesota) Sports, Radicalism and Renaisssance: Politics and Popular Culture in the Sports Pages of the Harlem Press.
Jacqueline Bacon
(Independent Scholar) Freedom’s Journal, 1827-1829:
Giving the First African-American Newspaper
its Due in Journalism History
Claire
Serant (St. John’s University ) Writing Racial Wrongs: T. Thomas Fortune’s,
New York Globe, New York Freeman and New York Age entrepreneurship at a time when the African-American middle-class was
gaining economic prominence.
.
Raymond Gamache (University of
Maryland) Representations of American Indian Athletes in Carlisle Indian Industrial
School Newspapers: Assimilation’s Last Stand
Wm. Joseph Thomas (East Carolina University) Cherokee Constitution, the Cherokee Phoenix, and American Newspapers
Mark Canada (University of North Carolina,
Pembroke) The Story
and the Truth: Intersections of Journalism and Literature in the Nineteenth
Century
Jim Downs (Connecticut College) The Reinvention of Once Upon a Time: Storytelling and the Writing of History
Doug Cumming (Washington and Lee University) The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the
Challenge of Modernity
Katherine
Aberbach (Georgetown University) Hardly A Dying Art:
Analyzing
Print News In The Unconventional Form Of Creative Nonfiction Books
David T. Humphries (Queensborough Community College) Representing the News, Imagining the Nation: Sherwood Anderson’s Home Town Newspapers
Matthew Blake (California State University, Chico) The Folk Language of Woody Guthrie’s
Newspaper Writings
.
Scholar to Scholar Roundtable Three: International Issues
(Moderator:
Joe Marren, Buffalo State College) (Silver Center Room 804)
Dina Fainberg (Rutgers University) Writing Moscow: Memoirs of American Journalists Who Covered the Soviet Union during the Seventies and the Eight.
Liora Hendelman-Baavur (Tel Aviv University) Reading Pygmalion in Iran: Clerics and the
1960s Popular Press
Janis Cakars (University of Indiana) Targets of communication for Latvia’s independence movement, 1986-1991
Robert Williams (American University) Das Freie Wort? The Contribution of the American-Controlled Press in the Creation of a Postwar German Public, 1945-1947
Sofiene
Mallouli (La Mannouba University, Tunisia) The Lebanon
War of Summer 2006: Framing and
frames in the Israeli and British Press.
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Panels One, Two and Three
Topic:
What are the lessons of Vietnam that the U.S. press should have learned
and should have applied to the current conflict? To find answers, this panel
explores the historical record of U.S. press coverage and press-government
relations during the Vietnam War.
Speakers: Andrew Huebner (University of
Alabama)
James Landers (Colorado State
University)
Tom
Mascaro (Bowling Green State
University)
Nancy Roberts (University at
Albany, SUNY)
Panel Two: Before Jackie Robinson: The Press and Racism in American Sports, (Silver Center Room 803)
Topic: Jackie
Robinson broke major league baseball's color line in 1947, forever changing
both baseball and American society. The integration of baseball would become a
critical juncture for the national pastime and an American society on the
threshold of the Civil Rights Movement.
This panel explores how the press covered stories of sport and racism in
the years leading up to the integration of major league baseball.
Speakers: Chris Lamb, (College
of Charleston), Author, Blackout:
The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
Brian
Carroll (Berry College), Author,
When to Stop Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and the
Integration of Professional Baseball
Ron Bishop (Drexel University) Specialist on Kenny Washington, who broke the color line in football.
Pamela Laucella (Indiana University) Specialist on Jesse Owens
Moderator:
Chris Lamb, (College of Charleston)
Panel Three:
Preserving and Accessing Journalism Resources, (Silver Center Room 805)
Topic: Preserving and accessing the journalistic record is an important academic responsibility. This panel will look at the challenges involved in preserving and accessing important historical records for faculty and students.
Speakers: Vincent
Golden (Curator of Newspapers
and Periodicals
American Antiquarian
Society) Chasing the Dumpster. The Sorry State
of Newspaper Survival. This talk will explore the issues encountered in
expanding the newspaper holdings at the American Antiquarian Society.
AR Hogan (University of Maryland) Organizing Historical News Tapes. This talk will recount experiences obtaining historic news programs and excerpts.
Michelle Harper (Readex) An Introduction to American Historical Newspapers. An overview of the single most comprehensive digital resource for searching and browsing historical American newspapers
Moderator: Joe Cutbirth, Columbia University
Luncheon Speaker:
Brooke Kroeger, Chair,
Department of Journalism, NYU
Topic: Journalists’ (Mis)Use of Scholarly
Research. We don't expect reporters, and reviewers who
write on deadline about scholarly themes to spend months in archives sifting
through reams of primary documents. But what are their obligations to the scholars
whose erudition they borrow?
1:30-2:30 Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables Four, Five
and Six
Scholar-to-Scholar
Panel Four: Biography
(Moderator: Lisa Keller, Purchase College, SUNY) (Silver Center Room 802)
Barbara
Reed (Rutgers University) True American:
David Naar and his True American.
Berkley
Hudson (University of Missouri) The Rise and Fall of the ‘Pope’ of America’s
Foreign-Language Press
Jane Chapman (University of
Lincoln) George Sand: Disenfranchised female pioneer of campaigning literary
journalism
Jason Barrett-Fox (University of Kansas) Marcet Haldeman-Julius’s (Attempted)
Reshaping of the American Socialist Agenda, 1925-1941.
Scholar-to-Scholar
Roundtable Five: Current
Representations
(Moderator: John
Breslin, Iona College) (Silver Center Room 803)
Keira
Vivian Williams (University of Georgia) The Modern-Day Medea’ and the Media: Public Representations of Susan
Smith
Lisa Burns (Quinnipiac University) Media[ted] Memories of a TV President: Media History in the JFK Presidential Museum
Sasha Meltzer Goldman (Columbia University) Threatened Innocents and the News: The impact of narratives about captive, missing and threatened women on American life.
David Seitz (University
of Pittsburgh) Media Coverage of the 1977 Hanafi Crisis:
A comparison of the media coverage of the Hanafi crisis (and other terrorist
events of the 1970’s and 80’s) with current media coverage of similar traumatic
events.
Scholar-to-Scholar
Roundtable Six: Issues in American
Journalism
(Moderator: Aurora
Wallace, New York University) (Silver Center Room 804)
Kevin Lerner (La Guardia Community College and Rutgers University) “Magazining” and muckraking: The special place of magazines in American media and culture
Carol Quirke (The
College at Old Westbury, SUNY) You’re
Making News Tonight”: Rank and File Photographers of Local 65 United Warehouse
Workers Union
Sheila Webb (Marquette
University) Technology Unlimited: The
Valorization of American Technological Prowess in the Pages of the Popular Press
Richard Lee (Rutgers
University) Media Consolidation In New Jersey
2:45-4:00 Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables Seven, Eight,
Nine
Scholar-to-Scholar
Roundtable Seven: Theoretical and Conceptual Concerns (Moderator: Maurine Beasley, University of Maryland) (Silver
Center Room 802)
Jon Bekken
(Albright University) An
Ecological Approach to Journalism History
Devon Powers (New York University) Is
Rock Criticism Part of Intellectual History?
Katrina
Quinn (Slippery Rock University)
A Theory of Epistolarity for the
Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Letter
Based on Samuel Bowles’s Across
the Continent (1865)
Danielle Haas
(Columbia University) The Journalist-Expert: The New Newsroom
Authorities
Tim Vos (Seton Hall University) Explaining Historical Outcomes in Media Research:
A Historiographical Essay on Functionalist Explanations
Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtable Eight: Free Press/ Free Speech and Its Constraints (Moderator Theresa Lynch, Massachusetts College of
Art) (Silver Center Room 803)
Roger Mellen (George Mason University) A Culture of Dissidence: The Emergence of Liberty of the Press in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia
Ron Bishop (Drexel University) That is Good to Think of These Days: The Campaign by Hearst Newspapers to Promote Addition of “Under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance
William
Gillis (University of Indiana)
Censors in the Shop: The Refusal of Printers to Handle a Black Student
Newspaper
Janice Wood (Texas Christian University) Physicians, Obscenity, and the Struggle for Free Speech in the Nineteenth Century
J. Michael Lyons (University of Indiana) A
Debate on the Sovereignty of Truth: The libel battle between The Associated Press and The Masses
Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtable Nine: Periods
In Journalism
(Moderator: Peter Fallon, Roosevelt
University) (Silver Center Room 804)
Jean
Palmegiano (St. Peter’s College) A Rose By Another Name: Journalism In
Victorian Britain
Julia
Paolitto (Oxford University) National
Culture in Crisis and the English Sunday Press Between the Wars
Karen
Dearlove (McMaster University) Gender,
Journalists and Access to the Administration: Anne O’Hare McCormick, Arthur
Krock and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dale Cressman (Brigham Young University) The Disappearance of Newspaper Row as Place
Sandra Gabriele (University of Windsor) Becoming
Popular: The Fin-de-siècle Newspaper as Cultural Formation
4:15-5:30 Closing Presentation:
Iraq
in the Light of Viet Nam: Did The Press
Fail in its Duty to the Public
(Silver
Center Room 803)
Speakers:
Eric Boehlert, Author Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush
William M. Hammond, Chief, General Histories Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Author, Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, Pt. I (1988) & II (1996), and Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War
Terrence Moran and Eugene
Secunda, Authors: Selling War to America: From the Spanish
American War to the Global War on Terror
Danny Schechter Author When News Lies: Media Complicity and the Iraq War, The Death of Media: And the Fight to Save Democracy (Melville Manifestos), and Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror,
Special
thanks to Aurora Wallace, New York University,
John Breslin, Iona College, Readex, the most comprehensive digital resource for searching and
browsing historical American newspapers. (www.readex.com)