A/P Ian Gordon

History

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Reading:
Joseph Turow, Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), Second Edition. Chapters Eight, Nine and Ten.
You can also use the first edition but the chapters are different: 1st edition (1999) Chapters Four, Six, and Seven. RBR Holdings

Additional:
Richard Davis, The Press and American Politics: the New Mediator (Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1996) Chapter Three. RBR Holdings; NUS Library Holdings
Helen Damon-Moore, Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 1880-1910 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994). NUS Library Holdings
Erika Doss, ed. Looking at Life Magazine (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001) NUS Library Holdings
David Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000). NUS Library Holdings
Richard Ohmann, Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century (New York: Verso, 1996). NUS Library Holdings
Tom Pendergast, Creating the Modern Man: American magazines and consumer culture, 1900-1950  (Columbia, Mo : University of Missouri Press, 2000) NUS Library Holdings
Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964). NUS Library Holdings
Michael Schudson, Discovering the News: a Social History of American Newspapers. NUS Library Holdings
Michael Schudson, "News, Public, Nation," The American Historical Review (April 2002): 481-495. Web Version
Michael Schudson, The Power of News (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995) Chapter One. RBR Holdings;  NUS Library Holdings
Matthew Schneirov, The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893-1914 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994) NUS Library Holdings
William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, editors, Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993). Chapter 5: Baldasty, G. Rise of News as a Commodity. RBR Holding; NUS Library Holdings
John Tebbel and Mary Ellen Zuckerman, The Magazine in America, 1741-1990 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). NUS Library Holdings

Web Sites for early magazines:
Godey's Lady's Book
Harper's
Making of America (Cornell) Digital magazines
Making of America (Michigan) Digital magazines

Links will be added to the following after lectures:
Lecture Outline
Study Guide

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