David Paul Nord
Biographic Data
| ID | 539707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Paul Nord |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Nord |
| SIGNATURE | NORD D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
History
The first communication theorists were historians, writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries about the power of print in the age of the Enlightenment. In the twentieth century mass communication research, especially in the United States, moved away from history and toward the social sciences. But then in recent decades history came back into communication research, mainly because of developments in postmodern philosophy. In other words, …
John Fea. The Bible Cause
In 1816, a group of influential American Christians launched the American Bible Society (ABS), an organization they believed would usher in an era of religious revival and Christian nation-building. The ABS was one of the first national associations in an emerging age of voluntary associationism. And, in the estimation of its creators, it was fundamental. All other religious and reform movements must be founded upon their product, the Protestant …
Interest Groups, Political Communication, and Jeffrey Alexander’s Sociology of Power
This essay argues that Jeffrey Alexander’s magnum opus, The Civil Sphere, presents a valuable but curiously narrow account of how political power works in American society, especially the power of interest groups. Alexander neglects the extensive literature on the “faces of power” in political science and the classic, critical literature on “source reporting” in journalism studies, both of which offer analyses of interest-group activity and disco…
Lisa Smith. The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers
In 1982 Jon Butler published a wonderfully revisionist article in the Journal of American History titled “Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction.” He argued that the term “Great Awakening,” which was ubiquitous in early American historiography, was mistaken; there was no sustained, intercolonial religious revival in mid-eighteenth-century America. The idea of the “Great Awakening” (and the term itself) was…
On the Borderland of Ethnicity and Race
Journal Article On the Borderland of Ethnicity and Race: An Introduction Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1630–1631, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567580 Published: 01 March 2000
The Uses of Memory
Journal Article The Uses of Memory: An Introduction Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 409–410, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567745 Published: 01 September 1998
Reading the Newspaper
Journal Article Reading the Newspaper: Strategies and Politics of Reader Response, Chicago, 1912–1917 Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord 1David Paul Nord is professor of Journalism and American Studies and adjunct professor of history at Indiana University. He is associate editor of the Journal of American History. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 3, Septem…
Religious Reading and Readers in Antebellum America
In the early 1840s, several students from Princeton Theological Seminary chose to spend their summer vacations as colporteurs, carrying religious books and tracts to the people of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. What they found there was both appalling and exhilarating. They were appalled by the poverty of the people and by what they took to be stupidity, depravity, and folly (their terms). Perhaps most of all they were appalled by religious ignoran…
A Fictive People
The Urbanization of American Journalism
The Urbanization of American Journalism David Paul Nord David Paul Nord David Paul Nord is Associate Professor of Journalism at Indiana University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 6, Issue 4, Spring 1992, Pages 20–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/6.4.20 Published: 01 March 1992
With the Hammer of Truth
Journal Article “With the Hammer of Truth”: James Thomson Callender and America's Early National Heroes. By Michael Durey. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. viii + 225 pp. $28.50.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1063–1064, https://doi.org/10.2…
Teleology and News
Journal Article Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American Journalism, 1630–1730 Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord associate professor of journalism and American studies and adjunct associate professor of history Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 9–38, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078637 Published:…
A Republican Literature
John Adams, Chief Justice John Jay, and New York Mayor Richard Varick. With such a distinguished readership, it little wonder that the publishers of The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository decided to publish a list of subscribers to their first volume in 1790. Like all eighteenth-century magazine publishers, Thomas and James Swords were proud of their association with gentlemen of character, stature, and literary taste.' Yet men such as Wa…
The Labor of Words
Journal Article The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. By Christopher P. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xix + 239 pp. Notes and index. $24.00.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 980–981, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908953…
The Public Community
Newspapers and New Politics
Journal Article Newspapers and New Politics: Midwestern Municipal Reform, 1890–1900. By David Paul Nord. (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1981. vii + 204 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $31.95.) Get access John D. Buenker John D. Buenker University of Wisconsin, Parkside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March 1982, Pages 958–959, https://doi.org/10.23…
Communication History
Journal Article Communication History. By John D. Stevens and Hazel Dicken Garcia. (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980. 159 pp. Charts, references, and index. Paper, $5.95.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 643–644, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901952 Published: 01 December 1981
An Economic Perspective on Formula in Popular Culture
Conventional Themes in Science Fiction
Religious Reading and Readers in Antebellum America
In the early 1840s, several students from Princeton Theological Seminary chose to spend their summer vacations as colporteurs, carrying religious books and tracts to the people of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. What they found there was both appalling and exhilarating. They were appalled by the poverty of the people and by what they took to be stupidity, depravity, and folly (their terms). Perhaps most of all they were appalled by religious ignoran…
Teleology and News
Journal Article Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American Journalism, 1630–1730 Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord associate professor of journalism and American studies and adjunct associate professor of history Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 9–38, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078637 Published:…
Communication History
Journal Article Communication History. By John D. Stevens and Hazel Dicken Garcia. (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980. 159 pp. Charts, references, and index. Paper, $5.95.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 643–644, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901952 Published: 01 December 1981
The Uses of Memory
Journal Article The Uses of Memory: An Introduction Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 409–410, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567745 Published: 01 September 1998
A Republican Literature
John Adams, Chief Justice John Jay, and New York Mayor Richard Varick. With such a distinguished readership, it little wonder that the publishers of The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository decided to publish a list of subscribers to their first volume in 1790. Like all eighteenth-century magazine publishers, Thomas and James Swords were proud of their association with gentlemen of character, stature, and literary taste.' Yet men such as Wa…
The Public Community
Conventional Themes in Science Fiction
An Economic Perspective on Formula in Popular Culture
Communication History
Journal Article Communication History. By John D. Stevens and Hazel Dicken Garcia. (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980. 159 pp. Charts, references, and index. Paper, $5.95.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 643–644, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901952 Published: 01 December 1981
Newspapers and New Politics
Journal Article Newspapers and New Politics: Midwestern Municipal Reform, 1890–1900. By David Paul Nord. (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1981. vii + 204 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $31.95.) Get access John D. Buenker John D. Buenker University of Wisconsin, Parkside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March 1982, Pages 958–959, https://doi.org/10.23…
The Public Community
The Labor of Words
Journal Article The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. By Christopher P. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xix + 239 pp. Notes and index. $24.00.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 980–981, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908953…
A Republican Literature
John Adams, Chief Justice John Jay, and New York Mayor Richard Varick. With such a distinguished readership, it little wonder that the publishers of The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository decided to publish a list of subscribers to their first volume in 1790. Like all eighteenth-century magazine publishers, Thomas and James Swords were proud of their association with gentlemen of character, stature, and literary taste.' Yet men such as Wa…
Teleology and News
Journal Article Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American Journalism, 1630–1730 Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord associate professor of journalism and American studies and adjunct associate professor of history Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 9–38, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078637 Published:…
With the Hammer of Truth
Journal Article “With the Hammer of Truth”: James Thomson Callender and America's Early National Heroes. By Michael Durey. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. viii + 225 pp. $28.50.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1063–1064, https://doi.org/10.2…
The Urbanization of American Journalism
The Urbanization of American Journalism David Paul Nord David Paul Nord David Paul Nord is Associate Professor of Journalism at Indiana University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 6, Issue 4, Spring 1992, Pages 20–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/6.4.20 Published: 01 March 1992
A Fictive People
Reading the Newspaper
Journal Article Reading the Newspaper: Strategies and Politics of Reader Response, Chicago, 1912–1917 Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord 1David Paul Nord is professor of Journalism and American Studies and adjunct professor of history at Indiana University. He is associate editor of the Journal of American History. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 3, Septem…
Religious Reading and Readers in Antebellum America
In the early 1840s, several students from Princeton Theological Seminary chose to spend their summer vacations as colporteurs, carrying religious books and tracts to the people of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. What they found there was both appalling and exhilarating. They were appalled by the poverty of the people and by what they took to be stupidity, depravity, and folly (their terms). Perhaps most of all they were appalled by religious ignoran…
The Uses of Memory
Journal Article The Uses of Memory: An Introduction Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 409–410, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567745 Published: 01 September 1998
On the Borderland of Ethnicity and Race
Journal Article On the Borderland of Ethnicity and Race: An Introduction Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1630–1631, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567580 Published: 01 March 2000
Lisa Smith. The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers
In 1982 Jon Butler published a wonderfully revisionist article in the Journal of American History titled “Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction.” He argued that the term “Great Awakening,” which was ubiquitous in early American historiography, was mistaken; there was no sustained, intercolonial religious revival in mid-eighteenth-century America. The idea of the “Great Awakening” (and the term itself) was…
Interest Groups, Political Communication, and Jeffrey Alexander’s Sociology of Power
This essay argues that Jeffrey Alexander’s magnum opus, The Civil Sphere, presents a valuable but curiously narrow account of how political power works in American society, especially the power of interest groups. Alexander neglects the extensive literature on the “faces of power” in political science and the classic, critical literature on “source reporting” in journalism studies, both of which offer analyses of interest-group activity and disco…
History
The first communication theorists were historians, writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries about the power of print in the age of the Enlightenment. In the twentieth century mass communication research, especially in the United States, moved away from history and toward the social sciences. But then in recent decades history came back into communication research, mainly because of developments in postmodern philosophy. In other words, …
John Fea. The Bible Cause
In 1816, a group of influential American Christians launched the American Bible Society (ABS), an organization they believed would usher in an era of religious revival and Christian nation-building. The ABS was one of the first national associations in an emerging age of voluntary associationism. And, in the estimation of its creators, it was fundamental. All other religious and reform movements must be founded upon their product, the Protestant …
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