Media History Links

Following are links to other organizations and publications of interest to the media historian.

To suggest a link that should be included on this page, contact Web Editor Rich Shumate.

For links to archives and other research resources, visit our Research page.

Women's Suffrage and the Media -- a database and resource site created by AJHA members. The editorial team includes the editors and several editorial board members of the academic journal, American Journalism: a journal of media history, which is publishing a special issue on this theme in April 2019 to commemorate the 2020 centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States.

Historiography in Mass Communication -- a journal publishing essays dealing with the study of mass communication history and of history in general

History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)

Journalism History -- quarterly journal of the AEJMC History Division

Clio -- newsletter of the AEJMC History Division

JHistory --- a forum for journalism historians that features periodic discussions among scholars, graduate students, and professionals

Media History Exchange -- a project funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities to create an archive and social network for media historians working in different disciplines

Media History Monographs
-- an online, open-source journal devoted to publishing historical scholarly works which are too long for regular journal articles and too short for books; sponsored by the School of Communications at Elon University

Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Civil War, and Free Expression
-- an annual conference devoted to the presentation of research and discussion of topics related to
U.S. mass media of the 19th century, the Civil War in fiction and history, freedom of expression in the 19th century, presidents and the 19th century press, images of race and gender in the 19th century press, sensationalism and crime in 19th century newspapers, and the press in the Gilded Age

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