...Eileen J. Findlay This article analyzes the varying representations of Puerto Ricans that circulated in the US popular press during and immediately after World War II. I historicize these discourses to show how in different contexts, even in the same historical moment, US understandings of Puerto...

...Joshua Brown Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 Reconstructing Representation: Social Types, Readers, and the Pictorial Press, 1865-1877 Joshua Brown In April 1875, in a rare public...

... press exposed a fundamental lie at the heart of American racialization: that lynching, segregation, and violent white domination were natural features of United States exceptionalism, and that “the colored people themselves” (both at home and abroad) were responsible for their own subjugation. Through...

... the revolutionary leaders’ suitability as governing officials by characterizing them as bearers of a “true masculinity,” and positively or negatively judging their “Latin” identity. Copyright © 2020 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2020 Cuban Revolution Operation Truth gender press...

...Hanan Hammad This essay analyzes how the Egyptian press covered the Iranian Revolution and the Khomeini regime in 1978-81. It discusses which issues related to the revolution and the revolutionary regime were covered, as well as the attitudes of different groups of Egyptian politicians...

...) Encyclopedia of the American kft (University of Illinois Press, 1982). Bernadine Dohrn: Three Memorable Facts Three memorable facts were largely absent during the recent rosy glorification of Richard M. Nixon. First, Nixon extended and expanded the Vietnam War for an additional six...

... of California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (University of Illinois Press, 1993). Howard A. Rodman: Lunching with Alger Hiss Back when I was an apparatchik for the Emergency Civil Liberties Foundation, I had the opportunity to get to know Alger Hiss, whose application...

... on nineteenth-century Chilean history, and on U.S.foreign policy in Latin America. JoAnne Wypijewski: The Price I remember my grandfather captivated by the television, one hand pressed firmly to his knee, the other clipping the air as he spoke. "We're gonna get the son...

... Securities said: "Right now, 90 percent of Wall Street would cheer if Nixon resigns." He had become an embarrassment. The big cover-up was not Nixon covering up Watergate, but the national leaders, including the press, covering up the nature of the American system by purging Nixon. He had to go...

..., in practice journalists face severe press restrictions and frequent reprisals. This meant that politically sensitive cables were discussed cautiously (if at all) in the domestic press while being debated vigorously in the diasporic press. At the same time, both domestic and diaspora outlets were suspicious...

...Courtney Fullilove This article analyzes a flour riot in New York City in 1837 as a conflict over capitalist food systems waged in a nascent center of finance during a period of rapid economic and territorial expansion. In the wake of the riot, the burgeoning “penny press” geared toward working...

...Howard Chiang This article extends debates on the place of Taiwan on our scholarly canvas by highlighting the region's unique status at the intersections of various margins—geopolitical, sociocultural, and historiographical. Using press reports of renyao (“human prodigy,” a Chinese category...

...Amira Rose Davis This article examines the experiences and representations of three black women who played baseball in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s. The article demonstrates the way the Negro League owners, the black press, and black male sportswriters used varying representations of athletic...

... and Brazil. This article uses this macaquitos affair to explore a larger pattern in which the nascent Argentine popular press disseminated negative racial portrayals of Brazil as a means of affirming a Euro-descended Argentine racial heritage. While this article highlights the mutually constructed notions...

... liberal public sphere. These reforms, however, framed political disagreement as an epistemological crisis and, in doing so, unintentionally bolstered a conservative critical disposition toward the mainstream press, exemplified in the “liberal media” trope. Copyright © 2021 by MARHO: The Radical...

... to diminish tensions in a world defined by uneven economic growth, Cold War ideological battles, and the specter of nuclear warfare. Drawing on archival materials, press reports, and the programs themselves, this essay offers an institutional history of the program’s development, expansion, and demise...

...Sarah Nelson Abstract International news, and the technological infrastructures required to collect, distribute, and publish it, have long been battlegrounds of imperial ambition and anticolonial contestation. In the early 1960s, press professionals, engineers, and telecom officials from the global...

...Rosemary Pennington Abstract Breaking news is hard to define, though the Associated Press has framed it as “news of transcendent importance.” Generally, it is news that provides information about an issue or an event the public did not already know, and it is increasingly tied to a feeling...