Gettysburg is so iconic — particularly because of the Gettysburg Address that Abraham Lincoln delivered four months after the battle — that we tend to lose sight of what it meant to the people who lived during the war.
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The First Amendment today
March 8, 2016 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, history, journalism, journalism education.
The nation seems to be in a state of perpetual war, and during times of crisis, individual freedoms are always in danger. Professor Dwight Teeter of the University of Tennessee discusses the state and strength of First Amendment freedoms today.
The web imposes new responsibilities on journalists
December 16, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: Home, journalism, news, teaching journalism, web journalism.
The web has imposed new responsibilities on the journalist – responsibilities that go far beyond those of the traditional print or broadcast reporter.
Creating an interactive chart with Google Spreadsheets (video)
December 5, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: Home, journalism, journalism education, teaching journalism, web journalism.
How do you make an interactive chart like this one and put it onto your web page? The video on this page will explain it all.
Seeing Suffrage: The iPad edition is on its way
October 15, 2012 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: news.The iPad edition of the book is nearly complete, and plans now are to have it available on the iBookstore by the first week in November. Because it is electronic and multimedia, the iPad edition will offer much more (and at a significantly lower price) than the print edition.