Category: Journalism
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Book Reviews — Signed or Unsigned?
A relatively recent trend was emerging around 1921: reviewers appending their names to their reviews. It is only in this twentieth century that the newspapers of New York have chosen to declare the authorship of their reviews of books, of plays, of pictures and of music…. [But] even now, a certain proportion of the book…
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The Anonymous Roosevelt
As an ex-president, Theodore Roosevelt wrote an anonymous monthly column for one of America’s biggest magazines, Ladies’ Home Journal, under the recurring column title “Men.” His authorship wasn’t revealed until 1920, after Roosevelt’s death, by the 30-year editor of Ladies’ Home Journal Edward Bok in his autobiography The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty…
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If You Don’t Believe the War Is Over — Look at These Summer Magazine Covers
Magazine covers during summer 1919, after WWI had ended, were different than during summers 1917 and 1918 during the war: For two Summers the June, July, and August covers displayed about the same thing that they showed in the other three seasons — beautiful girls dressed as nurses, or canteen workers, or motor corps drivers,…
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File of ‘La Libre Belgique’ Now in New York
The daring, revolutionary, and anti-authoritarian Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique [The Free Belgium] was published during World War I — its authors and location a state of almost complete mystery. As this 1918 article details: “Since the beginning of 1915 this small four-page sheet has been published, almost weekly, ‘somewhere in Belgium,’ in defiance of the Germans…
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Thirty-two Camps Have Newspaper in Common
The newspaper Trench and Camp was started for soldiers in training during WWI, with the intention that half the content would be national and identical among each of the 32 editions, with the other half of content being written by local writers. Trench and Camp did not survive past approximately 1919. What most Americans now think…
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Harden, Who Talks Freely and Yet Avoids Jail
Maximilian Harden’s German newspaper Die Zukunft, or The Future, was willing to write in defense of American President Woodrow Wilson and against Kaiser Wilhelm II, despite a sharp German crackdown on the press. How? The article speculates that perhaps Harden possessed embarrassing or incriminating information against the Kaiser that he was using as blackmail — not unlike current…
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