American Studies—Ideas for Media Historians?

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• Robert H. Walker, American Studies in the United States: A Survey of College Programs (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968), and Charles W. Bassett, “Undergraduate and Graduate American Studies Programs in the United States: A Survey,” American Quarterly, August, 1975.
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• Ibid.
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• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950).
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• For example: John W. Ward, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 1955); Richard W.B. Lewis, The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955); William R. Taylor, Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Character (New York: George Braziller, 1961).
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• Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964).
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• Leo Marx, “American Studies—A Defense of an Unscientific Method,” New Literary History, 1969, pp. 75–90.
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• Gene Wise, ‘“Paradigm Dramas' in American Studies: A History of the Movement,” a paper presented at the American Studies Association meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 1975.
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• Walker and Bassett, op. cit.
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• Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., A Behavioral Approach to Historical Analysis (New York: The Free Press, 1969).
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• Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., “Clio and the Culture Concept: Some Impressions of a Changing Relationship in American Historiography,” Social Science Quarterly, Sept. 1972, pp. 297–320.
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• Cecil Tate, The Search for a Method in American Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973).
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• Gene Wise, American Historical Explanations (Homewood, Ill.: The Dorsey Press, 1973).
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• Robert Sklar, “The Problem of an American Studies ‘Philosophy’: A Bibliography of New Directions,” American Quarterly, August, 1975, pp. 242–262.
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• Wise, op. cit., American Historical Explanations.
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• James W. Carey, “The Problems of Journalism History,” Journalism History, Spring 1974; Thomas H. Heuterman, “An Approach to Mass Communication History Through American Studies,” Clio (Association for Education in Journalism History Division Newsletter), Spring, 1974; Don L. Shaw, “Studying Newspapers as Cultural Reflectors: A Challenge for Communication Science Historians,” Clio, Spring, 1974; “Seeking New Paths in Research,” a special section in Journalism History, Summer, 1975 containing articles by Garth Jowett, Richard A. Schwarzlose, John E. Erickson, Marion Marzolf and David H. Weaver.
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• Previously cited works in the myth and symbol school may be useful for journalism historians working out this approach. So might Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967).
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• The term “content assessment” was suggested to the author by John E. Erickson of the School of Journalism, University of Iowa.
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• For examples and methodology, see Ole R. Holsti, Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities (Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969); Richard L. Merritt, Symbols of American Community (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); and Louis Galambos, The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880–1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
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• See John W.C. Johnstone, Edward J. Slawski and William W. Bowman, The News People: A Sociological Portrait of American Journalists and Their Work (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976).
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• See Bernard Roshco, Newsmaking (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1975) and Robert C. Toll, Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth Century America (London: Oxford University Press, 1974).
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• See, for examples. Association for Education in Journalism History Division, convention papers for 1977: Carolyn Stewart Dyer, “The Antebellum Wisconsin Newspaperman, A Group Portrait;” Jerilyn McIntyre, “Information Flow in a Frontier Context;” Kenneth D. Nordin, “The Entertaining Press: Sensationalism in Eighteenth Century Boston Newspapers;” William Thorn, “Montgomery Schuyler: Pioneer Architectural Critic.”
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