Ronald R. Rodgers.
The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018. 348 pp.
$40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2158-2. 
Reviewed by Merritt Morgan (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (December, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Stephen M. Underhill. The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020. 354 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-346-8.
Reviewed by Caley Hewitt (Louisiana State University) Published on Jhistory (November, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55971
Kimberly Meltzer.
From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in US Journalism.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. xix + 249 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7349-9.
Reviewed by Mark Oromaner (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (September, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Allison M. Johnson.
The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 224 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7037-3.
Reviewed by Eric Walls (Johnston Community College) Published on Jhistory (June, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr.
Marketing the Blue and Gray: Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 256 pp.
$47.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7082-3.
Reviewed by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith) Published on Jhistory (June, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Doron Galili. Seeing by Electricity: Cinema, Moving Image Transmission, and the Emergence of Television, 1878-1939. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. xii + 247 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0822-4.
Reviewed by Bryant Macfarlane (Kansas State University ) Published on Jhistory (May, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56177
Eddie Campbell.
The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics.
Studies in Comics and Cartoons Series. Columbus: IDW Publishing, 2018. Illustrations. 320 pp.
$49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68405-138-0.
Michael Stamm. Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 376 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2605-1.
Reviewed by Philip Glende (Indiana State University) Published on Jhistory (May, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
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Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, S. C. M. Paine, eds. From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and Revolution. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019. 320 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-712-4; $110.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62616-711-7.
Reviewed by Mark Oromaner (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (January, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Kathryn E. Delmez, ed.
We Shall Overcome: Press Photographs of Nashville during the Civil Rights Era.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. 176 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8265-2221-4.
Reviewed by Ida E. Jones (Morgan State University) Published on Jhistory (January, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
D'Weston Haywood. Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 352 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4339-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4338-0.
Reviewed by Eric Walls (Johnston Community College) Published on Jhistory (January, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Torsten Kathke.
Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854-1920.
American Culture Studies Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2017. 312 pp.
$45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-3790-8.
Reviewed by Bryant Macfarlane (Kansas State University) Published on Jhistory (November, 2020) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Donna Harrington-Lueker.
Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. xiv + 229 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-383-3; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62534-382-6.
Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, A. S. De Beer, eds. Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures around the Globe. New York, 2019. 448 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-54663-8.
Reviewed by Mark Oromaner (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (October, 2020) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
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Samuel Graber.
Twice-Divided Nation: National Memory, Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 288 pp.
$70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4238-4; $70.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4239-1; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4240-7.
