Ethan Thompson (Editor) ETHAN THOMPSON is a professor of communication and media at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. He is coeditor of the book How to Watch Television, author of Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture, and producer and director of the historical documentary, TV Family.Jeffrey P. Jones (Editor) JEFFREY P. JONES is director of the George Foster Peabody Awards and the Lambdin Kay Chair and Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. He is the author and editor of five books, including Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement, Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, and News Parody and Political Satire across the Globe.Lucas Hatlen (Editor) LUCAS HATLEN is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. His research interests focus on the interplay of political entertainment and U.S. history.

Together, the collection of individual chapters looks beyond what is found in the Archive to consider how the materials and resources might change our collective understanding of television’s past. . . Television History, The Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory demonstrates what is possible in terms of research knowledge when access is not limited by time, and will be of interest to students of media history. . . .

Ethan Thompson (Editor) ETHAN THOMPSON is a professor of communication and media at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. He is coeditor of the book How to Watch Television, author of Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture, and producer and director of the historical documentary, TV Family.Jeffrey P. Jones (Editor) JEFFREY P. JONES is director of the George Foster Peabody Awards and the Lambdin Kay Chair and Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. He is the author and editor of five books, including Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement, Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, and News Parody and Political Satire across the Globe.Lucas Hatlen (Editor) LUCAS HATLEN is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. His research interests focus on the interplay of political entertainment and U.S. history.

Together, the collection of individual chapters looks beyond what is found in the Archive to consider how the materials and resources might change our collective understanding of television’s past. . . Television History, The Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory demonstrates what is possible in terms of research knowledge when access is not limited by time, and will be of interest to students of media history. . . .

Ethan Thompson (Editor) ETHAN THOMPSON is a professor of communication and media at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. He is coeditor of the book How to Watch Television, author of Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture, and producer and director of the historical documentary, TV Family.Jeffrey P. Jones (Editor) JEFFREY P. JONES is director of the George Foster Peabody Awards and the Lambdin Kay Chair and Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. He is the author and editor of five books, including Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement, Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, and News Parody and Political Satire across the Globe.Lucas Hatlen (Editor) LUCAS HATLEN is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. His research interests focus on the interplay of political entertainment and U.S. history.

Together, the collection of individual chapters looks beyond what is found in the Archive to consider how the materials and resources might change our collective understanding of television’s past. . . Television History, The Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory demonstrates what is possible in terms of research knowledge when access is not limited by time, and will be of interest to students of media history. . . .