The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I

Published: April, 2023  Pages: 336  Features: 32 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.

An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of The Saturday Evening Post. As America’s largest circulation magazine, the Post hired the nation’s best-known and best-paid writers to cover World War I. The Weekly War provides a history of the unique record Post storytellers created of World War I, the distinct imprint the Post made on the field of war reporting, and the ways in which Americans witnessed their first world war. The Weekly War includes representative articles from across the span of the conflict, and Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy complement these works with essays about the history and significance of the magazine, the war, and the writers. more... about The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I

• Honorable Mention, 2023 Tomlinson Book Prize

The AEF in Print: An Anthology of American Journalism in World War I

Published: May, 2018  Pages: 400  Features: 26 b&w illus. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.

The AEF in Print is an anthology that tells the story of U.S. involvement in World War I through newspaper and magazine articles—precisely how the American public experienced the Great War. From April 1917 to November 1918, Americans followed the war in their local newspapers and popular magazines. The book’s chapters are organized chronologically: Mobilization, Arrival in Europe, Learning to Fight, American Firsts, Battles, and the Armistice. Also included are topical chapters, such as At Sea, In the Air, In the Trenches, Wounded Warriors, and Heroes. more... about The AEF in Print: An Anthology of American Journalism in World War I