Dave's Dissertation
These are chapters from my dissertation, completed in March
1997 at
the University of Alabama. The title of the dissertation is An
Industry
in Transition: Major Trends in American Daily Newspapers,
1945-1965.
My major professor for this project was Wm. David Sloan. So far,
I've
uploaded the following chapters, including footnotes.
Chapter 1--Introduction
Chapter 2--Business trends in the
postwar press, 1945-1949
Chapter 3--Improvement and Responsibility:
The Rise of Press Responsibility, 1945-1949
Chapter 4--Government, the Cold War, and
Newspapers, 1950-1954
Chapter 5--The Press and Television,
1948-1960
Chapter 6--Newspapers and the Civil Rights
Movement, 1954-1957
Chapter 7--The Seeds of Long-term
Change: Newspaper Trends, 1950-1963
Chapter 8--Kennedy and the Press,
1960-1963
Chapter 9--An Industry in Transition:
Daily Newspapers, 1960-1965
Chapter 10--Conclusion
Return to David R. Davies'
homepage.
URL: http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~ddavies/dissindex.html
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