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Bibliography

Reprinted from the OAH Magazine of History
6 (Spring 1992). ISSN 0882-228X
Copyright (c) 1992, Organization of American Historians

The following bibliography prepared by National History Day is not all inclusive.  It is meant to serve as a place for students to begin their research.  Students will need to conduct extensive research and investigate primary as well as secondary sources.  They should be encouraged to consult not only their own school library, but public libraries, archives and museums as well.  Students who choose local history topics should investigate community sources and conduct oral history interviews when possible.  Students should be made aware that resources for investigating historical topics include songs, works of art and architecture in addition to books, documents and manuscripts.

I.  INFORMATIONAL MEDIA

Andrews, Alexander.  The History of British Journalism:  From the Foundation of the Newspaper Press in England to the Repeal of the Stamp Act in 1855. London: R. Bentley, 1859.

Bailyn, Bernard, and John B. Hench, eds.  The Press and the American Revolution.  Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1980.

Bailyn, Bernard, ed.  The Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776.  Cambridge:  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972.

Black, Jeremy.  The English Press in the Eighteenth Century.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.

Bond, Donovan H., and W. Reynolds McLeod, eds.  Newsletters to Newspapers:  Eighteenth-Century Journalism.  Morgantown, W.V.: School of Journalism, West Virginia University, 1977.

Boyce, George, James Curran, and Pauline Wingate, eds.  Newspaper History:  From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day.  London: Constable, 1978.

Davidson, Phillip.  Propaganda and the American Revolution, 1763-1783.  Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941.

Hinkhouse, Fred Junkin.  The Preliminaries of the American Revolution as Seen in the English Press, 1763-1775.  New York: Octagon Books, 1969

Williams, Keith.  The English Newspaper:  An Illustrated History to 1900.  London: Springwood Books, 1977.

Censer, Jack R., and Jeremy D. Popkin, eds. Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Darnton, Robert.  The Literary Underground of the Old Regime.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Daniels, Jonathan.  They will be Heard:  America’s Crusading Newspaper Editors.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.

Emery, Edwin.  The Press and America:  An Interpretative History of the Mass Media.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

Friendly, Fred W.  Minnesota Rag:  The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press.  New York: Vintage Books,  1982.

Levy, Leonard W.  Emergence of a Free Press.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Marchand, Roland.  Advertising the American Dream:  Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1985.

Norris, James D.  Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920.  New York:  Greenwood Press, 1990.

II.  RHETORIC AND THE PROCESS 
OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Addams, Jane.  Forty Years at Hull House.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935.

Banner, Lois W.  Women in Modern America:  A Brief History.  San Diego:  Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1984.

Baritz, Loren.  The Culture of the Twenties.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.

Boorstin, Daniel.  The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America.  New York: Harper and Row, 1962.

Chafe, William.  The American Woman:  Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1960.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Davis, Allen F.  American Heroine:  The Life and Legend of Jane Addams.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1973.

Dubois, Ellen C.  Feminism and Suffrage:  The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1869.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1978.

Fink, Leon.  Workingmen’s Democracy:  The Knights of Labor and American Politics.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Harlan, Louis.  Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Josephy, Alvin M.  Red Power:  The American Indians’ Fight for Freedom.  New York: American Heritage Press, 1971.

Montgomery, David.  The Fall of the House of Labor:  The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Paine, Thomas.  Common Sense.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

Patterson, James T.  America’s Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1985.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1986.

Rupp, Leila and Verta Taylor.  Survival in the Doldrums:  The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1987.

Vincent, T.  Black Power and the Garvey Movement. San Francisco, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1972.

Walters, Ronald G.  The Antislavery Appeal:  American Abolitionism After 1830.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

White, Morton G. Social Thought in America:  The Revolt Against Formalism. New York: Viking Press, 1949.

Zaroulis, Nancy and Gerald Sullivan.  Who Spoke Up?  American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975.  Garden City:  Doubleday, 1984.

III.  TRANSMITTING CULTURAL VALUES

Gibb, Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen.  Studies in the Civilization of Islam.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1962.

Grant, Robert M.  A Historical Introduction of the New Testament. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

Herberg, W.  Protestant, Catholic, Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology.  2d ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960.

Moore, George F. Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.

Ahlstrom, Sydney E.  A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Berthoff, Warner.  A Literature Without Qualities:  American Writing Since 1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Dickstein, Morris.  Gates of Eden:  American Culture in the Sixties. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Jowett, Garth.  Film:  the Democratic Art. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976.

Kazin, Alfred. The Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemmingway to Mailer.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

Larson, Gary O. The Reluctant Patron:  The United States Government and the Arts, 1943-1965. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.

McElroy, Guy C. Facing History:  The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940. San Francisco, Calif.: Bedford Arts, 1990.

Mendelowitz, Daniel Marcus.  A History of American Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

Miller, Lillian B.  Patrons and Patriotism:  The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in the United States, 1790-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Reich, Charles A.  The Greening of America. New York: Bantam, 1971.

Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies.  New York: Random House, 1975.

IV.  COMMUNICATION THROUGH SYMBOLS

Erman, Adolf.  The Ancient Egyptians:  A Sourcebook of their Writings. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Woolley, Leonard.  A Forgotten Kingdom. New York: Norton, 1968.

Schlereth, Thomas J.  Artifacts and the American Past.  Nashville:  American Association for State and Local History, 1980.

V.  ORAL AND FOLK TRADITIONS

Botkin, Benjamin. A., ed.  A Treasury of Southern Folklore.  New York: Crown Publishers, 1949.

Brandon, William.  Indians.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.

Bryant, Alfred T.  The Zulu People:  As They Were Before the White Man Came.  New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970.

Calloway, Colin G., ed.  New Directions in American Indian History.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Genovese, Eugene D.  Roll, Jordon, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.  New York:  Pantheon Books, 1974.

Georgia Writers’ Project.  Drums and Shadows.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1940.

Hirschfelder, Arlene B. Guide to Research on North American Indians.  Chicago: American Library Association, 1983.

McIlwraith, Thomas Forsyth.  The Bella Coola Indians. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1948.

Nash, Gary B.  Red, White, and Black:  The Peoples of Early America.  Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974.

Rutherfoord, Peggy, ed.  African Voices: An Anthology of Native African Writing.  New York:  The Vanguard Press, 1958.

Umeasiegbu, Rems Nna.  The Way We Lived:  Ibo Customs and Stories.  London: Heinemann Educational, 1969.

Williams, Raymond, ed.  Contact:  Human Communication and Its History. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981.

VI.  USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNICATION

Aitken, Hugh G.  Syntony and Spark:  The Origins of Radio. New York: Wiley, 1976.

———.  The Continuous Wave:  Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 1985.

Archer, Gleason L.  History of Radio to 1926. New York: The American Historical Society, 1938.

Augarten, Stan.  Bit by Bit:  An Illustrated History of Computers.  New York:  Ticknor and Fields, 1984.

Avery, Robert K.  The Politics of Interconnection:  A History of Public Television at the National Level. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1979.

Barber, James D.  The Pulse of Politics:  Electing Presidents in the Media Age. New York: Norton, 1980.

Barnouw, Erik.  Tube of Plenty:  The Evolution of American Television.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1975.

Bolter, J. David.  Turing’s Man:  Western Culture in the Computer Age.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Brooks, John.  Telephone:  The First Hundred Years. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

Bruce, Robert V.  Bell:  Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

Chester, Edward.  Radio, Television and American Politics. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969.

Czitrom, Daniel.  Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting: 1899-1922.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Dummer, Geoffrey William Arnold.  Electronic Inventions and Discoveries:  1945-1976. New York: Pergamon Press, 1978.

Fielding, Raymond A.  A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1967.

Greenfield, Jeff.  Television:  The First Fifty Years. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977.

Hounshell, David. “Two Paths to the Telephone.” Scientific American 244 (January 1981): 156-163.

Jacobs, Norman, ed.  Culture for the Millions?  Mass Media in Modern Society. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.

Jenkins, Reese V.  Images and Enterprise:  Technology and the American Photographic Industry 1839-1925.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Lapatine, Sol.  Electronics in Communications. New York: Wiley, 1978.

Mankiewicz, Frank and Joel Swerdlow.  Remote Control:  Television and the Manipulation of American Life. New York: Times Books, 1978.

Polcyn, Kenneth A.  An Educator’s Guide to Communication Satellite Technology.  Washington, D.C.: Information Center on Instructional Technology, 1973.

Righter, Rosemary.  Whose News?  Politics, the Press and the Third World.  New York: Times Books, 1978.

Sklar, Robert.  Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies.  New York:  Random House, 1975.

Toll, Robert C.  The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth Century.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1982.

Wensberg, Peter C.  Land’s Polaroid:  A Company and the Man Who Invented It.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.

VII.  CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION

Cary, William L.  Politics and the Regulatory Agencies. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

Carter, T. Barton, Marc A. Franklin and Jay B. Wright.  The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate:  The Law of Mass Media.  Mineola, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1985.

Cullen, Maurice R.  Mass Media and the First Amendment:  An Introduction to the Issues, Problems, and Practices. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown, Co., 1981.

Friendly, Fred W.  Minnesota Rag:  The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press.  New York: Vintage Books,  1982.

Grundfest, Joseph A.  Citizen Participation in Broadcast Licensing Before the FCC.  Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corporation, 1976.

Krasnow, Erwin G.  The Politics of Broadcast Regulation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1973.

Leive, David.  International Telecommunications and International Law:  The Regulation of the Radio Spectrum.  Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1970.

Levy, Leonard W.  Emergence of a Free Press. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Rosden, George and Peter Rosden.  The Law of Advertising: A Treatise. New York: M. Bender, 1973.

X.  COMMUNICATION ACROSS 
CULTURES AND TIME

Bean, Frank and Marta Tienda.  The Hispanic Population of the United States.  New York:  Russell Sage Foundation, 1987.

Caplan, Nathan, et al.  The Boat People and Achievement in America: A Study of Economic and Educational Success. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.

Crewdson, John.  The Tarnished Door:  The New Immigrants and the Transformation of America.  New York: Times Books, 1983.

Curtis, L. Perry Jr.  Apes and Angels:  The Irishman in Victorian Caricature.  Washington, D.C.:  Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971.

Fleming, Thomas J.  The Golden Door:  The Story of American Immigration.  New York:  Grosset and Dunlap, 1970.

Greeley, Andrew M.  That Most Distressful Nation:  The Taming of the American Irish.  Chicago:  Quadrangle Books, 1972.

Knobel, Dale T.  Paddy and the Republic:  Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America.  Middleton:  Wesleyan University Press, 1986.

Miller, Stuart C.  The Unwelcome Immigrant:  The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1969.

Waters, Maureen.  The Comic Irishman.  Albany:  The State University of New York Press, 1984.