Revolutions in Communication
Media history from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
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  • About
    • Adopted worldwide
    • For history instructors
    • About the book
      • Reviews
      • Acknowledgements
      • Lacunae & errata
    • About the author
  • Course
    • Model course calendar
    • Lecture Slides 1 — Intro & Print Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 2 — Visual Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 3 – Electronic Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 4 — Digital Revolution
  • Chapters
    • Ch 0 Introduction to media history
      • Ch 0 About history
      • Ch 0 About historians
      • Ch 0 Media & technology
    • Ch 1 Printing
      • Ch 1 Videos & Podcasts
      • Ch 1 Further reading
    • Ch 2 Industrial press
    • Ch 3 Modern press
      • Ch3 War correspondents
      • Ch3 Muckraking, gonzo & sports
      • Ch3 Demise of the newspaper
    • Ch 4 Photography
    • Ch 5 Cinema
    • Ch 6 Advertising & PR
    • Ch 7 Telegraph & telephone
      • Ch7 The first wire services
    • Ch 8 Radio
      • Ch8 Inside radio
      • Ch 8 Music & the internet
    • Ch 9 Television
    • Ch 10 Computers
    • Ch 11 Networks
      • Ch 11.Data visualization
    • Ch 12 Global cultures
  • Features
    • Life in the old printing ‘chapel’
      • The Spirit of the Chapel 
      • Building a replica press
    • Ben Franklin’s environmental controversy
    • Three monopolies that built the telegraph
      • News before & after the telegraph
    • Radio and the Titanic
    • Civil rights and the press
    • II Civil rights & the press
    • Science & environmental journalism
      • Science & environmental press
      • Walter Lippmann and the radium girls
      • Teddy bears and mind bombs
    • Radio time machine
    • Street press of the Velvet Revolution
    • The Retro-Future of Communication
    • Rebuilding community media
    • Newsroom of the future (via ChatGPT)
  • Photography
    • Photography 1820s – 1880s
    • Photography 1880s – 1920s
    • Photography – Migrant Mother
    • Photography 1920s – 40s
    • Photography in WWII
    • Photography 1950s-70s
    • Modern era
  • Cinema /TV
    • Early experiments
    • African American film pioneers
      • Oscar Micheaux
    • Animation
    • The Silent Era
    • Golden Age of Hollywood
    • Film censorship
    • Newsreels
    • Documentaries
    • European cinema (mid-20th century)
    • WWII propaganda
    • 1960s & 70s
    • Blockbusters
    • Public domain comm films
    • TV 1950s – 60s
    • TV 1970s-80s
    • TV 1990s – 2000s
  • Research
    • Content analysis
    • Books about the Media
    • Movies about the Media
    • Museums and collections
    • Travel & Adventure
  • Hands-On History
    • Writing
    • Printing
    • The Nellie Bly game
    • Signals & codes
    • Golden age of radio
    • Cinema
      • TDIH
  • Int’l media
    • NGOs and the UN
    • Wire services
    • Global Media development 1940s–1970s
    • Media globalization 1980s – 2000s
    • History of African media
    • History of Asian media
    • History of European media
    • History of Latin American media
    • History of Middle Eastern media
    • History of North and Central American media

This Day in History: 1930-09-19

Bettye Lane, American photojournalist, is born on this day in 1930.  Lane was known for documenting major events within the Feminist Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Gay Rights Movement in the United States.

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