Dr. Janice Hume is a professor and head of the Department of Journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is author of Obituaries in American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and co-author of Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Routledge, 2008).

"Drawing on evidence from three centuries, Popular Media and the American Revolution recounts the stories that newspapers, magazines, and television programs have told about the country’s founding – stories that merge fact with folklore, local pride with national unity, and political purpose with popular sentiment, and that over time have crystallized into public memory. Entertaining as well as illuminating, Janice Hume’s study ably affirms the central role of journalism in the construction of national mythology." —Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism, Temple University

• Prologue: Revolution, Journalism and American Identity; 1. Building the American Story; 2. "The Gathering Mists of Time"; 3. The Nation’s First Washington; 4. The (Not Quite) Anniversary of Independence; 5. American Characters; 6. "We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident" 7. The Electronic Revolution; 8. Who’s Your Founding Father?

Dr. Janice Hume is a professor and head of the Department of Journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is author of Obituaries in American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and co-author of Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Routledge, 2008).

"Drawing on evidence from three centuries, Popular Media and the American Revolution recounts the stories that newspapers, magazines, and television programs have told about the country’s founding – stories that merge fact with folklore, local pride with national unity, and political purpose with popular sentiment, and that over time have crystallized into public memory. Entertaining as well as illuminating, Janice Hume’s study ably affirms the central role of journalism in the construction of national mythology." —Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism, Temple University

• Prologue: Revolution, Journalism and American Identity; 1. Building the American Story; 2. "The Gathering Mists of Time"; 3. The Nation’s First Washington; 4. The (Not Quite) Anniversary of Independence; 5. American Characters; 6. "We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident" 7. The Electronic Revolution; 8. Who’s Your Founding Father?

Dr. Janice Hume is a professor and head of the Department of Journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is author of Obituaries in American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and co-author of Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Routledge, 2008).

"Drawing on evidence from three centuries, Popular Media and the American Revolution recounts the stories that newspapers, magazines, and television programs have told about the country’s founding – stories that merge fact with folklore, local pride with national unity, and political purpose with popular sentiment, and that over time have crystallized into public memory. Entertaining as well as illuminating, Janice Hume’s study ably affirms the central role of journalism in the construction of national mythology." —Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism, Temple University

• Prologue: Revolution, Journalism and American Identity; 1. Building the American Story; 2. "The Gathering Mists of Time"; 3. The Nation’s First Washington; 4. The (Not Quite) Anniversary of Independence; 5. American Characters; 6. "We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident" 7. The Electronic Revolution; 8. Who’s Your Founding Father?