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Index
ABC network movie
The Day After,
and post-show discussion
The Day After,
and post-show discussion
advertising: newspaper, history of ; political; television commercials
Agassiz, Louis
Age of Reason
Age of Reason, The
(Paine)
(Paine)
American Mercury
American Spelling Book
(Webster)
(Webster)
Analects
(Confucius)
(Confucius)
Anderson, Paul
Arendt, Hannah
Areopagitica
(Milton)
(Milton)
Aristotle
Associated Press
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
(Franklin)
(Franklin)
auto industry
Bakker, Jim
Baltimore Patriot
Baptists
Barthes, Roland
Bay Psalm Book
Beecher, Henry Ward
Bennett, James
Bible
“Bonanza” (TV show)
book censorship
Boorstin, Daniel;
The Image
The Image
Boston
Boston Gazette
Boston News-Letter.
Brave New World
(Huxley)
(Huxley)
British Broadcasting Corporation
Brokaw, Tom
Bruner, Jerome
Buckley, William
Bunn, Alfred
Burns, George
capitalism
Carlyle, Thomas
Carter, Jimmy
Cassirer, Ernst
Catholicism
Cavett, Dick
CBS network
censorship
“Cheers” (TV show)
Chicago
Children’s Television Workshop
Cicero
cities, as metaphors of national character
Clark, Ramsey
clocks
college: commencements, televised ; 19th-century
Colonial America, typography in
Commager, Henry Steele
commercials. See television commercials
Common Sense
(Paine)
(Paine)
computers
confessionals, televised
Confucius,
Analects
Analects
Congregationalists
Constitution, U.S.
conversation
“Cosmos” (TV series)
Coswell, Henry
court trials, televised
Craft, Christine
Cronkite, Walter
crossword puzzles
Daguerre, Louis
daguerreotype
Daily News
“Dallas” (TV show)
Day After, The
(ABC movie), and post-show discussion
(ABC movie), and post-show discussion
debates: Lincoln-Douglas
; 1984 presidential
Decalogue
Deism
Democracy in America
(Tocqueville)
(Tocqueville)
Department of Education
Description of New England
(Smith)
(Smith)
Dewey John;
Experience and Education
Experience and Education
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Dietrich, Dr. Edward
“Diff’rent Strokes” (TV show)
Dirksen, Everett
doctoral oral
Douglas, Stephen A.
Dryden, John, Fables
Duché, Jacob
Dukakis, Mike
Dunkers
Dwight, Timothy
“Dynasty” (TV show)
education: Colonial; to control television; 19th-century ; as television entertainment; “The Voyage of the Mimi” programs, discussed
Edwards, Jonathan;
Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northhampton
; A
Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northhampton
; A
Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
18th-century religion and typography
Einstein, Albert
elderly, and television
“The Electric Company” (TV show)
electricity
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Empire of Reason
England
entertainment; education as ; modem cities as; politics as; television as
“Entertainment Tonight” (TV show)
Episcopalians
epistemology, media as
Ervin, Sam
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(Locke)
(Locke)
Experience and Education
(Dewey)
(Dewey)
eyeglasses, invention of
“Eye-Witness News” (TV show)
Fables
(Dryden)
(Dryden)
Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northhampton
(Edwards)
(Edwards)
Falwell, Jerry
Faulkner, William
Federal Communications Act
Federalist Papers
(Publius)
(Publius)
film
Finney, Charles
“Firing Line” (TV show)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Ford, Gerald
Ford, Henry
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
(Mander)
(Mander)
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, James
Frelinghuysen, Theodore
Freud, Sigmund
Frye, Nonhrop
Galileo
Gerbner, George
German Ideology, The
(Marx)
(Marx)
Goodrich, Samuel
Goody, Jack
Graham, Billy
Great Awakening
Greece, Classical; book censorship in; rhetoric in
Greeley, Horace
Guardian
(Steele)
(Steele)
“Gunsmoke” (TV show)
Hamilton, Alexander
Harris, Benjamin
Harvard University
Havelock, Eric
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry VIII, King of England
Herschel, John F. W.
Heyman, John
History and Development of Advertising, The
(Presbrey)
(Presbrey)
Hoffman, David
Hofstadter, Richard
Holbrook, Josiah
Homer
(Pope)
(Pope)
Horn, Steve
Huxley, Aldous ;
Brave New World
Brave New World
illuminated manuscripts
Image, The
(Boorstin)
(Boorstin)
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Iranian hostage crisis
Jackson, Jesse
Japan
Javits, Jacob
Jay, John
Jaynes, Julian
Jefferson, Thomas
Jews
Johnston, J. R W.
Kennedy, Edward
Kennedy, John F.
Kent, James
Kissinger, Henry
Koch, Edward
“Kojak” (TV show)
Koppel, Ted
Las Vegas
“Laugh-In” (TV show)
lecture hallsh-century
legal system; 18- and 19th-century ; televised
leisure, changing role of
librariesh-century
Life
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Lindsay, John
Lippmann, Walter
literacy rates: Colonial; 19th-century
“The Little House on the Prairie” (TV show)
Locke, John;
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Look
Lowell, James Russell
Luther, Martin
Lyceum Movement
McCarthy, Joseph
McGinnis, Joe,
The Selling of the President
The Selling of the President
McGovem, George
McGuffy Reader
McLuhan, Marshall
McNamara, Robert
MacNeil, Robert
“MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour” (TV show)
Madison, James
Magnetic Telegraph Company
Mander, Jerry,
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Markham, Edwin
Marshall,. John
Marx, Karl;
The German Ideology
The German Ideology
Mayflower
media, as epistemology
media-metaphors
medical practices, televised
medium and technology, distinctions between
“Meet the Press” (TV show)
Melville, Herman
metaphors, media
Methodists
microscope
Middle Ages
Mill, James
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Perry.
Miller, Reverend Samuel
Miller, William
Milosz, Czeslaw
Milton, John,
Areopagitica
Areopagitica
“Mission: Impossible” (TV show)
mnemonics
Moral Majority
Moran, Terence
Morse, Samuel
Moyers, Bill
Mumford, Lewis;
Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization
music: rock; television
Nader, Ralph
National Religious Broadcasters Association
NBC network
Nevins, Allan
New-England Courant
“The New Media Bible” (movies)
newspapers: advertising in ; history of ; modeled on television
See also specific names of newspapers
See also specific names of newspapers
New York Apprentices’ Library
New York City
New York
Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
New Yorker, The
New York Gazette
New York Herald
New York Sun
New York Times, The
Nietzsche, Friedrich
19th century; advertising; education; legal system; Lincoln-Douglas debates; photography ; religion; telegraph; transportation; typography
Nixon, Richard
“Nova” (TV series)
“Now ... this” mode of discourse
O’Connor, Cardinal John J.
Official Video Journal
O’Neill, Tip
Ong, Walter
“The Open Mind” (TV show)
oral traditions
Orwell, George ; “The Politics of the English Language”
Ovid,
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria
Paine, Thomas;
The Age of Reason
;
Common Sense
The Age of Reason
;
Common Sense
pamphlets, colonial
Paul IV, Pope
Pennsylvania Amish, filming of
penny newspaper
People
Philadelphia
philosophy
Phoenix
photography
pictographic writing
Plato; on written word
Poe, Edgar Allan
politics; Lincoln-Douglas debates ; 1984 presidential debates ; Orwell on
politics, television; as advertising; and physical appearance of politician
“The Politics of the English Language” (Orwell)
polls
Prope, Alexander,
Homer
Homer
Presbyterians
presidential debates, 1984,
printed word: advertising, history of ; in Colonial times ; decline of ; effects of telegraphy and photography on ; invention of; 19th-century
printing press;
invention of
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