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

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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. By the start of the Great War, The Saturday Evening Post had become the most successful and influential magazine in the United States, a source of entertainment, instruction, and news, as well as a shared experience. World War I served as a four-year experiment in how to report a modern war. The news-gathering strategies and news-controlling practices developed in this war were largely duplicated in World War II and later wars. Over the course of some thousand articles by some of the most …
Date: April 2023
Creator: Dubbs, Chris & Edy, Carolyn M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
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Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
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System: The Portal to Texas History
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The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 79, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 26, 2020

Triweekly newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 26, 2020
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
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The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 76, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 19, 2020

Triweekly newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 19, 2020
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
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The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 69, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 5, 2020

Triweekly newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 5, 2020
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History