A podcast that rips out the pages of your history books to re-examine the stories you thought you knew.
Scholars Pamela Walck and Ashley Walter discuss their research on a pioneering comic strip whose portrayal of a female aviator helped ease Americans’ fears about changing gender roles in the World War II era.
Author Marilyn Greenwald shares insight into writing biographies about the first woman to serve as a network news correspondent, the newspaper reporter who created The Hardy Boys and a former society editor at The New York Times.
The deaths of George H.W. and Barbara Bush in 2018 generated significant media coverage analyzing their legacies. Bush family expert Myra Gutin and collective memory expert Janice Hume reflect on obituary coverage of the couple and the shaping of historical legacies.
Suffrage author Brooke Kroeger discusses the website suffrageandthemedia.org and the effort to reach a broader audience throughout the suffrage anniversary.
Nancy Unger of Santa Clara University discusses a Wisconsin suffragist once called “the most consistent supporter of equal rights of all the women of her time” but whose legacy is often overshadowed by her husband’s.
Scholar Amy Easton-Flake discusses literary works in The Revolution and The Woman’s Journal, newspapers that suffragists started themselves to promote their cause.
For decades, a powerful countermovement worked to prevent women from getting the right to vote. As researcher Teri Finneman explains, many of those protesters were actually women preventing the expansion of their own rights.
The nation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote in 2019 and 2020. Linda Lumsden of the University of Arizona discusses a historiographic perspective on the state of suffrage and the media research.
First ladies expert Maurine Beasley discusses why press coverage of first ladies matters, providing insight into Eleanor Roosevelt and more recent first ladies.
This episode features advice on incorporating oral histories into research that will ultimately get published. This panel from the 2018 American Journalism Historians conference features David Caruso, Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Nicholas Hirshon and Ford Risley.