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Media History Project Assignment -- Guidelines & Reminders

For your final project in this class, you will be selecting a person or theme from your professor's "They Were There Too” topic suggestion list to research in detail and write a paper or create an informational podcast about.

Identify a minimum of 4 usable sources to help you tell the story of your person or analyze your theme. Write a question your paper or podcast will answer -- this can help you narrow your focus as you research.

Present your research either:

Working from an outline, write a research paper of no fewer than 5 full pages (plus a works cited page).
Working from a script, produce an interesting and historically factual audio podcast of no less than 4:00 minutes in length and no more than 5:00 minutes. Your feature will consist of your narration, and actual sound clips relating to your topic (and historically relevant music, if necessary).

Review the assignment's full details in your Blackboard course site to make sure you aren't missing any other details.

Inspiration & Class Topics

The library's collection is rich with materials about the history of broadcasting, radio, and history. Want to browse through some of what we have? Need some inspiration to help you decide on a specific topic to research? See some highlighted resources below.

Interested in borrowing one or more of these items? Visit our collections in-person or request items using our Library to Go and Library to Go PLUS service. Entries and chapters of titles in the reference collections will need to be photocopied or digitally scanned. Work with a librarian if you have questions or need help.

Suggested Books for 'They Were There Too' Topics

Women Pioneers in Television : biographies of fifteen industry leaders

Available at Bethlehem

Includes: Peggy Charren, Gertrude Berg, Pauline Frederick, others

The Today Show: Transforming Morning Television

Available at Bethlehem

Includes: Barbara Walters

Selling Women's History: packaging feminism in twentieth-century American popular culture

Available at Bethlehem

Includes these chapters: "The Quaker girl turns modern" : how adwomen promoted history, 1910-1940, Broadcasting yesteryear : women's history on commercial radio, 1930-1945, Gallant American women : feminist historians and the mass media, 1935-1950

Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting

Available at Bethlehem

Includes: Gertrude Berg, Agnes Nixon, Irna Phillips, Barbara Walters, Pauline Frederick, Eunice Randall, Anne and Frank Hummert, Bertha Brainerd, Cristina Saralegui, Cathy Liggins Hughes, Joan Ganz Cooney, Ora Nichols, Gracie Allen, Mary Livingstone, Portland Hoffa, Mary Margaret McBride, Edythe Meserand, others.