School of Communications faculty members David Copeland and Harlen Makemson each made presentations at the American Journalism Historians Association convention Oct. 6-8 in San Antonio.
Copeland discussed newspaper coverage of the French and Indian War, specifically the Battle of Quebec, on the panel “Contextualizing the Alamo: Famous Battles and the American Press.” Copeland is editor of the recently released eight-volume “The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting.”
Makemson presented “The Lost Genius of Political Cartoonist Bernhard Gillam,” a research project on the life of the 19th century cartoonist of magazines Puck and The Judge.