Kathleen Elizabeth Diffley.
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876.
Print Culture in the South Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021. 268 pp.
$36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-6065-2. 
Doris Lechner. Histories for the Many: The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The Leisure Hour, 1852-1870. History in Popular Cultures Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2016. 340 pp. EUR 39.99 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-3711-3.
Reviewed by Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire, UK) Published on Jhistory (January, 2023) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Kylie Galbraith. The British Press and Nazi Germany: Reporting from the Reich, 1933-9. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 276 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-10209-5.
Reviewed by Toby Clark (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (November, 2022) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
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Susan E. Kirtley.
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips.
Studies in Comics and Cartoons. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2021. 268 pp.
$134.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1457-2; $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8142-5793-7.
Kevin M. Lerner.
Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019. 290 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2186-5.
Reviewed by Mark Oromaner (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (November, 2022) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Andie Tucher.
Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pp.
$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-18634-6; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18635-3.
John Maxwell Hamilton. Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 656 pp. Ill. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7077-9.
Reviewed by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith) Published on Jhistory (June, 2022) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Will Mari.
The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (Journalism in Perspective).
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2021. 248 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2232-9.
Reviewed by Philip Glende (Indiana State University) Published on Jhistory (March, 2022) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Ashley Marshall. Political Journalism in London, 1695-1720: Defoe, Swift, Steele and Their Contemporaries. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. x + 313 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-545-8.
Reviewed by Andrew Tompkins (Drew University) Published on Jhistory (February, 2022) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
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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
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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
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