Thomas Terry

Journalism & Communication

Professor

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Monographs

• “His Criticism Never Ceased: Willard Cole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Campaign Against the Ku Klux Klan, 1950-53.” Media History Monographs, 2017-2018; 20:1.
• “Celebrating Forefathers . . . Or Picnicking with Firecrackers? A Content Analysis Study of American Newspaper Celebrations of the July 4^th Independence Day, 1820-1860.” Media History Monographs, 2013-2014; 16:1. Co-author with Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D., and Caitlin Hourigan.

Chapter In-press

• “Our Greatest and Only Aid: Conscription in the Civil War through the Pages of Federal and Confederate Newspapers in 1863,” The Civil War Soldier in the Press: In Life, In Death, and In Memory. Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. Edited by David Sachsman and Katrina Quinn. New York and London: Routledge Press. Scheduled for publication in late 2021.

Chapters

• “Like So Many Black Skeletons: The Slave Trade through American and British Newspapers, 1808-1865.” Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War, edited by David Sachsman (New York and London: Routledge Press, 2019), 125-138.
• “Newspapers, Agenda Setting, and a Nation Under Stress.” Co-author with Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. With Milad Minooie, Ph.D. The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War, , edited by David Sachsman (New York and London: Routledge Press, 2019), 14-22.
• “To Always Be the Tocsin: Josephus Daniels, the News & Observer, and the Beginnings of Jim Crow.” Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. After the War: the Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900, edited by David Sachsman (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2017), 89-102.
• “Rebel Yells and Idle Vaporings: The Lost Cause Rises and Dissipates in the Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, and New York Times, 1860-1914.” Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. After the War: the Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900, edited by David Sachsman (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers 2017), 3-19.
• “Custer and the ‘Savages:’ Newspaper Coverage of the Indian War, Summer 1876.” Principal Author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. After the War: the Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900, edited by David Sachsman (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2017), 269-295.
• “Visions of Jubilee: Looking to Emancipation and Beyond in the Pacific Appeal 1862-1863,” African Americans in the History of Mass Communication: A Reader, Naeemah Clark, editor (New York and Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing, 2014), 7-22.

Journal Articles In-press

• “Died of a Theory: The Treason Trial of Jefferson Davis through Newspaper Coverage, 1865-1869,” Southeastern Review of Journalism History, Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D., Spring 2022.
• “Each Fairy-tale, Each Myth: The Collapse of Vertical Media into a Welter of Disequilibrating Horizontal Media.” Co-author. With Subin Paul, Ph.D., Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain. Agenda Setting Journal. Scheduled for early 2022.
• “Greater Rudeness: Interruptive Behavior in the Graduate School Classroom,” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 2021. Scheduled for publication in 2022.

Journal Articles

• “Moving the Needle on Racial Disparity: COVID Vaccine Trust and Hesitancy, May 2020 to February 2021.” Vaccine. Co-author with Cheryl Lin, Ph.D., and Pikuei Tu, Ph.D. Both are co-directors of the Policy and Organization Management Program at Duke University.
• “Potter’s Field? Potter Stewart’s ‘Or of the Press:’ Constitutional Redundancy or Free Press Lodestar?” Ellada Gamreklidze, Ph.D., and Thomas C. Terry, co-authors. Appalachian Journal of Law, 20:1, 2020-2021.
• “An Embattled Terrain: Women, African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants at the Margins in U.S. Newspaper Stories, 1820-1860.” Journalism History. Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. and Erin Coyle, Ph.D. March 2021, 47:1, 89-106.
• “To Protect a Scumbag: Larry Flynt as Metaphor for First Amendment Media Cravenness,” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 2019 (published in 2020), 265-283.
• “Thereby Throw Sand: Presidential Media Respect through Honorific References in White House Press Briefings, 2001-2017,” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 2018 (published in 2019), 333-346.
• “Rest Under the Shade of the Trees: The Lost Cause through Obituaries of Union and Confederate Generals, 1863-1916,” Southeastern Review of Journalism History. Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D., 13:1, Spring 2018, 1-15.
• “The Epiphany of Tuskegee Airman Charles Sumner Stone, Jr.” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 94: 2017, 303-316.
• “Weekly or Weakly Quality? A Comparative Analysis of Circulation, Penetration, Quality, and Prizewinning at North Carolina Community Newspapers.” Research essay, Community Journalism, 5:1 (2016), 41-47.
• “Military Communication Strategies Based on How Audiences Meld Media and Agendas.” Military Review. Vol. 95, No. 6: Nov.-Dec. 2015, 16-27. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. and Milad Minooie, Ph.D.
• “Of Foreign Fevers, Shot, and Shell: Constitutional Rights of Media Access to the Battlefield after Flynt v. Rumsfeld.” National Security and Armed Conflict Law Review, Vol. V: 2014-2015, 95-116.
• “Pacific Appeal Campaigns for Black Man’s Role in Civil War.” Newspaper Research Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3, Summer 2013; 22-35.
• “Pious, Pure, Submissive, and Domestic? The Transformation and Representation of Women in American Newspapers, 1820-1860." The Atlanta Review of Journalism History, 10:1 (Spring 2012), 1-24 With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. and Bradley J. Hamm, Ph.D.
• “Community Journalism Provides Model for Future.” Newspaper Research Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1: Winter 2011; 71-83.
• “Seeking the H Zone: How We Mix Media Messages to Create Compatible Community in the Emerging Papyrus Society.” Central European Journal of Communication Vol. 3, No. 2 (5): Fall 2010, 23-36. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. and Sherine El-Toukhy, Ph.D.
• “Business Communication: Strategies in the Emerging Papyrus Society – Agenda Setting, Agenda Cutting and Audience Agendamelding in the New Century.” Agenda Setting: Media Tenor Research Report Nr. 157; 2007, 108-114. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D., Dave Gercken, Chad Carroll, and Bradley Hamm, Ph.D.
• “Vertical Versus Horizontal Media: Using Agenda Setting and Audience Agendamelding to Create Public Information Strategies in the Emerging Papyrus Society.” Military Review, Vol. 86, No. 6: Nov.-Dec. 2006, 13-25. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. and Bradley Hamm, Ph.D.
• “The First Amendment Grounded: Constitutional Implications of Federal Air Regulations on Airborne Newsgathering.” Communication Law and Policy, Vol. 10, No. 1: Spring 2005, 241-265.
• “W. Horace Carter – The Life Outside: A Weekly Newspaperman’s Campaign Against the Ku Klux Klan, 1950-1953.” Grassroots Editor, Vol. 44, No. 3: Fall 2003, 10-16.

Essays (online)

• “Teaching Essay: An Embattled Terrain Teaching,” Teaching Essay Series, Journalism History. Co-author with Donald L. Shaw, Ph..D. and Erin Coyle, Ph.D. – April 2021.
• “The Judicial Legacy of ‘Or of the Press,’” First Amendment Essay Series, Journalism History, online at https://journalism-history.org/. Co-author with Ellada Gamreklidze – Oct. 2019.  

Encyclopedia Entry

• “Separation of News and Comment.” International Encyclopedia of Communication, Vol. X, Wolfgang Donsbach, ed. (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 4576-78. Co-author with Donald Shaw.

Awards

• Top Paper Award – at the Symposium on the 19^th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. “Enormous, Dreadful Wickedness: The Transatlantic Slave Trade through American and British Newspapers, 1800-1808.” Principal author with Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. – November 11-13, 2021.
• Winner, the J. William Snorgrass Memorial Award for the Outstanding Paper on a Minority Topic, “Its Racist Plunder: Opposing Agendas and Representations of African Americans in the Elections of 1898 and 2008 through White and Black Press Political Cartoonists,” American Journalism Historians Association national convention – Oct. 2-3, 2020.
• Top Paper Award – at the Symposium on the 19^th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN. “A Strong Impulse: The Transatlantic Slave Trade through American Newspapers, 1808-1844.” Principal author. With Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D. – Nov. 2-4, 2017.
• Top Paper Award – at the Symposium on the 19^th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN. “Celebrating Forefathers . . . Or Picnicking with Firecrackers? A Content Analysis Study of American Newspaper Celebrations of the July 4^th Independence Day, 1820-1860.” Co-author with Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D., and Caitlin Hourigan – Nov. 11-13, 2010.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Impact Award for Exceptional Graduate Research with Direct Benefits to North Carolina for M.A. Thesis, “W. Horace Carter – The Life Outside: A Weekly Newspaperman’s Campaign Against the Ku Klux Klan, 1950-1953” – 2005.
• First place student paper in the History Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium, March 3-5, 2005, Athens, GA: “An Awful Roar: Coverage of the Ku Klux Klan’s Resurgence in the Early 1950s through the Pages of the Black Press in North Carolina.”