Revolutions in Communication
Media history from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
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  • About
    • History instructors
    • About the book
      • Reviews
      • Acknowledgements
    • About the author
    • Faculty textbooks FAQ
    • Preface
    • Bibliography
    • Index
    • Lacunae & errata
    • Museums and collections
  • Course
    • Model Syllabus
      • Courses using Revolutions in Communication
      • U. Ljubljana
    • Model course calendar
    • Lecture Slides 1 — Intro & Print Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 2 — Visual Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 3 – Electronic Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 4 — Digital Revolution
    • Books about the Media
    • Movies about the Media
    • Research project
  • Chapters
    • Ch 0 Intro
      • About history
      • About historians
      • About media & technology
    • Ch 1 Printing
    • Ch 2 Industrial press
    • Ch 3 Modern press
      • War correspondents
      • Muckraking, gonzo & sports
      • Demise of the newspaper
    • Ch 4 Photography
    • Ch 5 Cinema
    • Ch 6 Advertising & PR
    • Ch 7 Telegraph & telephone
    • Ch 8 Radio
      • 8a. Inside radio
      • 8b. Music & the internet
    • Ch 9 Television
    • Ch 10 – Computers
    • Ch 11 Networks
      • 11a.Data visualization
    • Ch 12 Global cultures
  • Features
    • About history
    • Ben Franklin’s environmental controversy
    • Life in the old print shop
      • Henry Goodwin’s Wayzgoose speech
      • Building a replica press
      • The Spirit of the Chapel 
    • Travel & Adventure
    • Radio and the Titanic
    • Civil rights and the press
      • II Civil rights & the press
    • Industrial printing revolution
    • Three monopolies that built the telegraph
    • WWII era propaganda cartoons
    • News before & after the telegraph
    • The radium girls and the press
    • Science & environmental journalism
      • Science & environmental press
      • Teddy bears and mind bombs
    • Radio time machine
    • Communication and peace
      • Communication and peace II
      • Communication and peace III
      • Communication and peace IV
    • Street press of the Velvet Revolution
    • Wire services
    • Peace and civil rights, on and off the air
    • Who killed the American newspaper?
    • New directions for community media
  • Photography
    • Photography 1820s – 1880s
    • Photography 1880s – 1920s
    • Photography – Migrant Mother
    • Photography 1920s – 40s
    • Photography 1940s
    • Photography 1950s-60s
    • Modern era
  • Cinema
    • 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
    • International film
  • TV
    • TV shows 50s – 60s
    • TDIH
  • Hands-On History
    • Writing
    • Printing
    • Nellie Bly game
    • Signals & codes
    • Golden age of radio
    • Cinema

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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