We meet tonight at a crossroads, a point of decision.Shall we expand, be inclusive, find unity and power; or suffer division and impotence?We come to Atlanta, the cradle of the old south, the crucible of the new South.Tonight there is a sense of celebrati
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Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad; Just to root for the home town crew, evry sou, Katie blew On a Saturday, her young beau Called to see it shed like to go, To see a show but Miss Kate said, No, Ill tell you what you can do: CHORU
Continue reading >>The beginning of commercial radio broadcasts in 1920 brought a new source of information and entertainment directly into American homes. President Franklin Roosevelt understood the usefulness of radio as a medium of communication: His "fireside chats" kep
Continue reading >>The first American magazines appeared a half century after the first newspapers and took longer to attain a wide audience. In 1893, the first mass-circulation magazines were introduced, and in 1923, Henry Luce launched Time, the first weekly news magazine
Continue reading >>In 1990 the press celebrated its 300th anniversary as an American institution. The first newspaper in the colonies, Publick Occurrences: Both Foreign and Domestick, lasted only one day in 1690 before British officials suppressed it. But other papers spran
Continue reading >>The average American, according to a recent study, spends about eight hours a day with the print and electronic media -- at home, at work, and traveling by car. This total includes four hours watching television, three hours listening to radio, a half hou
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