JOUR689L

News Coverage of Specialized Topics; Lynching and the Press

This course will study how the news media covered lynching from 1789 to 1963 and will contribute to an ongoing academic research project and article. Students will classify and analyze hundreds of news articles toexplore how the media framed lynching events, portrayed lynching victims, and described he role of law enforcement at lynching events. During the course of the semester, students will engage in historical research, content analysis, database creation and management, and computational textual analysis.

Sister Courses: JOUR689D, JOUR689E, JOUR689F, JOUR689I, JOUR689J, JOUR689M, JOUR689O, JOUR689P, JOUR689R, JOUR689U, JOUR689W, JOUR689X, JOUR689Y

Spring 2026

Dana Priest

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Spring 2025

Dana Priest

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Past Semesters

Dana Priest

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Rob Wells

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

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