MAKING HISTORY TODAY: Media and U.S. Politics - Brian Rosenwald on Talk Radio's America

Making History Today, produced by the History program at Fitchburg State University, connects the classroom to historians working in their fields. In these conversations, students discuss works assigned in class and develop questions for the authors, which are then posed in these episodes.

The first series of conversations emerges from Prof. Katherine Jewell's graduate course in Fitchburg State's online Master's program in History in summer 2023 on Media and U.S. Politics.

In this episode, students engage with Dr. Brian Rosenwald, a historian of the modern United States and media and politics. He cofounded and serves as senior editor of Made By History, a Time history section. He is currently a scholar in residence at the University of Pennsylvania and writes regularly for public audiences and as a media analyst.

In this episode, students interrogated the rise of Rush Limbaugh’s career and his success in conversation with media regulations and political transformations. They discuss Rosenwald’s book,Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States.

Episode transcript can be found here.

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This episode was edited and sound mixed by Adam Fournier, a member of the Perseverantia staff and a student in the Communications Media department.

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