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About the Editors

 

19th Century U.S. Newspapers Editorial Advisory Board

Editor in Chief
David A. Copeland
A. J. Fletcher Professor
Distinguished University Scholar
School of Communications
Elon University, North Carolina

David A. Copeland is the author of nine books, primarily on the press of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including The Antebellum Era (2003), Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (2000), Colonial American Newspapers: Character and Content (1997), and The Idea of a Free Press: The Enlightenment and Its Unruly Legacy (2006). He is editor of the Greenwood Library of American War Reporting (2005), an eight-volume series that deals with all American wars from the French and Indian War to the current war on terrorism. In this award-winning series, he wrote the volumes on the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. He is also editor of the seven-volume Debating the Issues series that looks at how newspapers have affected public opinion in America from the Revolution through World War I. Professor Copeland has produced more than fifty book chapters, articles, and papers on the press and early America and religion and the press. A past president of the American Journalism Historians Association, he was named Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Virginia Professor of the Year in 1998. He received his Ph.D. in mass communication research from the University of North Carolina.

Associate Editors
John M. Coward
Associate Professor, Chair
Faculty of Communications
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma

John M. Coward is associate professor and chair of the Faculty of Communication at The University of Tulsa. A former newspaper reporter and editor in Tennessee, he earned a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published scholarly articles, book chapters, and book reviews on Native American representations in nineteenth and twentieth century media. His widely praised first book, The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90, was published in 1999 by the University of Illinois Press. His second book, The Indian Wars, is an annotated compilation of news stories and editorials on the nineteenth-century Indian wars. It was published in 2005 as part of The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting. He is currently working on a cultural history of Indian images in the nineteenth-century pictorial press. Profs. Coward also writes book reviews for the Tulsa World, specializing in history, Native American topics and contemporary affairs.

Debra Reddin van Tuyl
Associate Professor, Communications
University of Hartford, Connecticut

Debra Reddin van Tuyll is associate professor of communications at Augusta State University. She is author of The Southern Press in the Civil War, one of eight volumes in the Greenwood Publishers Series on American War Reporting, as well as about a dozen book chapters and journal articles. She is also co-editor of the The Civil War and the Press. Her research interests are the Southern press during the Civil War, and her current projects include a study of periodical and newspaper readership in North and South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War and a study of dissent among Confederate newspapers and its effect on the war effort. Van Tuyll’s doctorate is in journalism history from the University of South Carolina. Her masters is from the University of Alabama, and her bachelor’s is from the University of Montevallo.

Elizabeth V. Burt
Professor of Communication
Augusta State University, Georgia

Elizabeth V. Burt is a Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford. A journalism historian who specializes in the Progressive Era and the history of women and journalism, she is the author of "The Progressive Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1890-1914" and the editor of "Women's Press Organization, 1881-1999," both published by Greenwood Press. A former journalist, she received her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin in 1994.

Patricia L. Dooley
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Elliot School of Communication
Wichita State University, Kansas

Patricia L. Dooley is an associate professor and director of graduate studies at Wichita State University's Elliott School of Communication. She has completed two books related to the history of nineteenth century journalism, and a third on the relationship between the history of journalism and technology is forthcoming. Dooley has also published her research in journals such as the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. Prior to starting her career as a university professor, Dooley held several administrative posts over a period of 12 years at the Minnesota Historical Society.