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Introduction -- Part I. The press, 1704-1920 -- Foundations of the American press, 1704-1763, Franklin and his contemporaries -- Printers take sides, 1763-1832 -- Putting the news in newspapers, 1833-1850 -- Radicals all! 1830-1875, covering slavery and the Civil War -- Crusaders and conservatives, 1875-1912, journalism in yellow and gray -- Professionalizing the news in peace and war, 1900-1920 -- Part II. The media, 1920- -- Jazz age journalism, 1920-1929, magazines and radio challenge the newspaper -- Hard times, 1929-1941, three great columnists, two great reporters, one horrible decade -- The "good war," 1941-1945 -- Creating big media, 1945-1963 -- Rocking the establishment, 1962-1972 -- The establishment holds, 1967-1974 -- Big media gets bigger, 1980-1999 -- Going digital, 1995-2008 -- Revolutions and evolutions, 2008 -- Conclusion. |
