This article examines the daily operations of the Leader and Berger’s belief that a free press was crucial in fostering socialism.
For the July 6, 1970, cover story, Newsweek magazine asked six prominent historians to each write a 2,500-word essay on the "Crisis of the American Spirit." This editorial decision responded not only to the anxieties produced by a continuing wave of violence sweeping the nation, but also a fraught journalistic context.
As the social and political upheaval that marked the end of the Sixties decade bled into the first months of the Seventies, both journalists and historians found their fields undergoing remarkably similar transitions. College newspapers in the United States primarily focus on the internal life of the campus community.
However, campuses are also part of the larger community and coverage of off-campus news is often integral to that community. This research seeks to document and describe the coverage of national and international news events during the interwar period of 1920 to 1940 by analyzing the contents of six geographically dispersed college newspapers.