-Within the short period of a year she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse, - reported The National Intelligencer on the death of Elizabeth Buchanan in 1838.
Such obituaries fascinate us. Few of us realize that, when examined historically, they can reveal not only information about the departed but also much about American culture and about who and what we value. They also offer hints about the way Americans view death.
This book also will fascinate, for it surveys more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930 to show what they reveal about our...
-Within the short period of a year she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse, - reported The National Intelligencer ...
This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of public grief, which has returned to an almost Victorian level. A number of researchers have begun to address this growing collective preoccupation with death in modern life; few scholars, however, have studied the central forum for the conveyance and construction of public grief today: news media. News reports about death have a powerful impact and cultural authority because they bring emotional immediacy to matters of fact, telling stories of...
This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of p...
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, celebrated each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays. But to identify as an American is to connect to a larger national narrative, one that begins in Revolution. In "Popular Media and the American Revolution, "journalism historian Janice Hume examines the ways that generations of Americans have remembered and embraced the Revolution through magazines, newspapers, and digital media....
The American Revolution an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins conti...
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, celebrated each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays. But to identify as an American is to connect to a larger national narrative, one that begins in Revolution. In "Popular Media and the American Revolution, "journalism historian Janice Hume examines the ways that generations of Americans have remembered and embraced the Revolution through magazines, newspapers, and digital media....
The American Revolution an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins conti...
