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Popular Media and the American Revolution

Shaping Collective Memory

By Janice Hume

To Be Published February 1st 2014 by Routledge – 256 pages

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    Description

    The American Revolution--an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins--continues to live on in the public's memory. Each year on July 4th, the United States honors its history with fireworks and similar patriotic displays. In Popular Media and the American Revolution, journalism historian Janice Hume examines the ways that generations of Americans have remembered and celebrated the revolution through magazines, newspapers, and digital media. Examining press and popular media coverage of the war, wartime anniversaries, and the Founding Fathers, Hume provides insights into the way that journalism can and has shaped a culture's collective memory of its past.

    Contents

    Prologue: Collective Memory and Media 1. Introduction: The Press at War 2. Building an American Story: How Early American Historians Used Press Sources to Remember the Revolution 3. The Gathering Mists of Time: American Magazines and Revolutionary Memory 4. A Sense of Place: The First "Washington" 5. Our Heroes: Regional Icons Tie Community to Nation 6. The Fourth Estate and the Fourth of July 7. Revolutionary Images 8. Memory in Motion: The Evolution of Revolutionary References in American Media 9. The Revolution in the Digital Age

    Author Bio

    Janice Hume is a professor of journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is co-author of Journalism in a Culture of Grief and is author of Obituaries in American Culture. Her studies on the relationship between American media and collective memory, obituaries, and heroism have appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism & Communication Monographs, Journalism History, American Journalism, The Review of Communication, and Journal of Popular Culture.

    Name: Popular Media and the American Revolution: Shaping Collective Memory (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: By Janice Hume. The American Revolution--an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins--continues to live on in the public's memory. Each year on July 4th, the United States...
    Categories: Journalism History, The American Revolution, American Studies, Media History, Military & Naval History, Public History, American History, Communication History, Popular Culture, Newspapers