Newspapers and the Making of Modern America

Aurora Wallace is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Communications at New York University. She received a Ph.D. in Communications from McGilll University in Montreal and was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Her research looks at media, architecture and urban space, 19th and 20th century newspaper and journalism history, and crime in the media.

• Newspapers and Their Cities, Towns, and Villages Tabloids and the City: The New York Daily News, The Daily Mirror and Evening Graphic Small Town Reform Newspapers: The Des Moines Register, The Emporia Gazette and Anniston Star The Black Press Goes to War: The Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, and The Baltimore Afro-American Postwar Newspapers, Suburbanization, and Land Development: Los Angeles Times and Long Island Newsday Florida in Chains: The Miami Herald and Tampa Tribune The Community Newspaper: The Village Voice, East Village Other, and Chicago Seed to CNHI National Newspapers and the Nation: The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY

"Wallace looks at how 20th-century newspapers shaped community cultural and economic development. Each of the seven chapters is a mini-essay analyzing how specific newspapers reflected and changed the way a particular community or demographic group envisioned itself....[t]he book's sweep suggests an array of topics that will intrigue those interested in news organizations and the communities they cover....[t]his accessible book includes solid notes and some photographs. Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers." - Choice