Category: Research
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College Radio Cuts: University of Arkansas, 1970s
At the University of Arkansas, the “voice of the university” offered “something for everyone from public affairs programs to radio drama to musical fare for particular tastes.” Having debuted in 1973, staffers expanded programming in new directions. The university’s president hosted a weekly show during which he engaged with student media and leaders of various…
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College Radio Cuts: More Georgetown
I am making a lot of painful cuts in the book manuscript right now, so I’m archiving them here. “The news is strange, and they never play any Springsteen,” read a complaint from a student newspaper reporter at Georgetown University in 1976. WGTB’s troubles amounted to more than ignoring school basketball games and occasionally air…
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College Radio Cuts: WGTB and Georgetown Basketball, 1976
I am making a lot of painful cuts in the book manuscript right now, so I’m archiving them here. At Georgetown University in 1976, WGTB DJs faced an administrative-led Review Board dictate to air sports. Students had complained that the station didn’t serve their interests. They objected to Pacifica-influenced progressive programming, as well. Thus the…
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Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 09 – Karen L. Cox
In this last official entry in the Liner Notes Vol. 1, I talk with historian Karen Cox. Check out her most recent book, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, out now. In this episode, we talk about apps and strategies for organizing archival documents, how to balance the ebb…
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Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 2 – Hilary Green
This week, we talk with historian Hilary Green, whose social media posts about writing, research, reading, and process are so inspiring. In addition to her many publications, she has also has captured research about race, slavery, and memory at the University of Alabama in the Hallowed Grounds project. Her book, Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools…
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My Sticky-Note Outlining Process
I’ve been posting on Twitter randomly recently about my process while outlining a couple of new chapters. I’ll elaborate and make it clearer what is happening. I wrote a whole thread about this, then accidentally deleted it. A blog post is better, anyways. As I’m researching, writing, I often make notes on stickies about ideas…
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Reconstructing the Archives in Sound
Early this January I was writing up a section of my book project on college radio about Rice University’s KTRU in the 1980s. KTRU-FM’s records include both paper and sound: their online collection of on-air programming is one of the more extensive in college radio history. I visited the physical archives in June 2019, in…
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