Last week I meet with the president and editor-in-chief of American Heritage Magazine, Edwin S. Grosvenor. This venerable old publication was created by the American Association for State and Local History in 1949 and its long time editor was the award winning historian, Bruce Catton. When it was launched it sought to apply the methods…
Month: August 2010
Helping Cab Calloway Summer School Students Explore Mass Media
I just finished working with an engaged group of young people at the Cab Calloway Summer School for the Arts. The progra was designed to introduce these scholars to old media, which was largley new to them. “This Just In: When Radio & Television Came of Age” was fun to do as they listened to and analyzed old radio…