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Abrams, Janet Y.  “Constructing the Corporate Image: Architecture, Mass Media, and Management in the Early Multinational Corporation, a Case Study of the National Cash Register Company, Dayton, OH, 1884-1906.”  PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aldrich, Mark. \u201cPublic Relations and Technology: The \u2018Standard Railroad of the World\u2019 and the Crisis in Railroad Safety, 1897\u20131916.\u201d Pennsylvania History<\/em> 74 (Winter 2007):  74\u2013104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alwood, Edward.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Role of Public Relations in the Gay Rights Movement, 1950-1969.\u201d\u00a0Journalism History<\/em>\u00a041:1 (Spring 2015): 11-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anbinder, Jacob. \u201cSelling the World: Public Relations and the Global Expansion of General Motors, 1922\u20131940.\u201d\u00a0The Business History Review<\/em>\u00a092, no. 3 (2018): 483\u2013507.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, William B.  \u201cThe Great War Against Venereal Disease: How the Government Used PR to Wage an Anti-Vice Campaign.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 43 (2017): 507-516.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, William B.  \u201cHow to Keep Rosie the Riveter from Contracting VD: A Case Study of how U.S. Social Reformers Used Public Relations During World War II.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 45:5 (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, William B.  “Crafting the National Pastime’s Image: The History of Major League Baseball Public Relations.” Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs<\/em> 5:1 (Spring 2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, William.  \u201cThe Next Great Plague to Go: How the U.S. Surgeon General Used Public Relations to Fight Venereal Disease During the Great Depression.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 44:2 (Summer 2018): 63-69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, William B.  \u201cI Paid My Income Tax Today: How the US Government Used Public Relations to Persuade Its Citizens to Accept a Mass Tax During World War II.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 46:4 (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aronczyk, Melissa.  \u201cPublic Relations, Issue Management, and the Transformation of American Environmentalism, 1948-1992.\u201d  Enterprise & Society<\/em> 19:4 (December 2018): 836-863.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernays, Edward L.  Crystallizing Public Opinion. <\/em>New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernays, Edward L.  Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Council Edward L. Bernays.<\/em>  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernays, Edward L.  “Emergence of the Public Relations Council: Principles and Recollections.”  Business History Review<\/em> 45 (August 1971): 296-313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird, William L.  Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955. <\/em>Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogle, Lori Lyn.  \u201cPandering to the Crowd: The American Governing Elite\u2019s Changing Views on Mass Media and Publicity During the Nineteenth Century.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 43:2 (Summer 2017): 62-74.

Browning, Nicholas.  \u201cEthics and the Profession: The Crystallizing of Public Relations Practice from Association to Accreditation, 1936-1964.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 35:2 (Spring 2018): 140-170.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capozzi, Louis, and Shelley Spector.  Public Relations for the Public Good: How PR Has Shaped America\u2019s Social Movements<\/em>.  New York: Business Expert Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capizzo, Luke, Mikayla Pevac, and Stephanie Madden. \u201cIt\u2019s About (Damn) Time: Community, Temporality, and Feminist Values in Activist Public Relations History.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 49:2 (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carey, Alex.  Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty. <\/em>Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cecil, Matthew C.  “Seductions of Spin: Public Relations and the FBI Myth.”  PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cecil, Matthew, Jessica Freeman, and Jennifer Tiernan. \u201cJackals, Vultures, Scavengers, and Scoundrels: FBI Public Relations and J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s Handwritten \u2018Blue Gems.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 43:1 (2017): 2-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark, Justin T.  \u201cConfronting the \u2018Seeker of Notoriety\u2019: Pathological Lying, the Public, and the Press, 1890-1920.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 34:2 (Spring 2017): 179-200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crawford, Kenneth Gale.  The Pressure Boys: The Inside Story of Lobbying in America<\/em>.  New York: Messner, 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtin, Patricia A. \u201cFred Harvey Company Public Relations and Publicity (1876-1933).\u201d Journal of Communication Management<\/em> 12:4 (2008): 359-373.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtain, Patricia.  \u201cDiscourses of American Indian Racial Identity in the Public Relations Materials of the Harvey Company, 1902-1936.\u201d  Journal of Public Relations Research<\/em> 23:4 (2011): 368-396.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutlip, Scott M.  \u201cThe History of Public Relations Education in the United States.\u201d  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 38:3 (June 1961): 363-370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutlip, Scott M. The Unseen Power: Public Relations, A History. <\/em>Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutlip, Scott M.  Public Relations History: From the 17th to the 20th Century<\/em>.   <\/em>Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deakin, James.  The Lobbyists<\/em>.  Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1966.  Some material on PR and public opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeLorme, Denise E., and Fred Fedler.  \u201cJournalists\u2019 Hostility Toward Public Relations: An Historical Analysis.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 29 (2003): 99-124.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delton, Jennifer.   The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ewen, Stuart.  PR!: A Social History of Spin<\/em>. New York: Basic Books, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenske, Gail, and Deryck Holdsworth.  \u201cCorporate Identity and the New York Office Building,\u201d in The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940<\/em>, David Ward and Olivier Zunz, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzgerald, Stephen E.  \u201cPublic Relations: A Profession in Search in Professionals.\u201d  Public Opinion Quarterly<\/em> 10:2 (Summer 1946): 191-200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fones Wolf, Elizabeth.  Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960.  <\/em>Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fones Wolf, Elizabeth. “Creating a Favorable Business Climate: Corporations and Radio Broadcasting, 1934-1954.” Business History Review<\/em> 73, No. 2 (Summer 1999): 221-255. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fullerton, Ronald A.  \u201cThe Art of Public Relations: U.S. Department Stores, 1876-1923.\u201d  Public Relations Review<\/em> 16:3 (Fall 1990): 68-79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galambos, Louis.  The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940. <\/em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golden, L.L.L.  Only by Public Consent: American Corporations’ Search for Favorable Public Opinion<\/em>.  New York, 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gower, Karla K.  “Rediscovering Women in Public Relations: Women in the Public Relations Journal, 1945-1972.” Journalism History <\/em>27:1 (Spring 2001): 14-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gower, Karla K.  Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace<\/em>.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gower, Karla. \u201cUS Corporate Public Relations in the Progressive Era.\u201d Journal of Communication Management<\/em> 12:4 (2008): 305-318.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gower, Karla K., and Margot Opdycke Lamme. \u201cPublic Relations on Trial: The Railroad-Truckers Brawl.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 29:1 (Spring 2003): 12-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gower, Karla K.  Betsy Ann Plank: The Making of a Public Relations Icon<\/em>.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham, Amanda.  \u201cThe Copper Commando<\/em> and the Anaconda Company\u2019s Wartime Production.\u201d  Montana: The Magazine of Western History<\/em> 59:4 (Winter 2009): 67-72.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gray, David A. \u201cManaging Motivation: The Seth Seiders Syndicate and the Motivational Publicity Business in the 1920s.\u201d Winterthur Portfolio<\/em> 44 (Spring 2010): 77\u2013122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griese, Noel L.  \u201cAT&T: Origins of the Nation\u2019s Oldest Continuous Institutional Advertising Campaign.\u201d  Journal of Advertising<\/em> 6 (1977): 18-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griese, Noel L.  Arthur W. Page: Publisher, Public Relations Pioneer, Patriot<\/em>.  Anvil Books, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gruening, Ernest.  The Public Pays: A Study of Power Propaganda<\/em>.  New York: Vanguard Press, 1931.  (PR by public utilities to influence legislation in the 1920s)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hadlaw, Jan. \u201cSaving Time and Annihilating Space: Discourses of Speed in AT&T Advertising, 1909\u20131929.\u201d Space and Culture<\/em> 14, no. 1 (2011): 85\u2013113.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hallahan, Kirk.  \u201cIvy Lee and the Rockefellers\u2019 Response to the 1913-1914 Colorado Coal Strike.\u201d Journal of Public Relations Research<\/em> 14:4 (2002): 265-316.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haugland, Ann. “Book Propaganda: Edward L. Bernays’s 1930 Campaign Against Dollar Books.” Book History<\/em> 3 (2000): 231-252.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harwood, John.  The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1975.  <\/em>Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heath, Robert, and Shannon Bowen. \u201cThe Public Relations Philosophy of John W. Hill: Bricks in the Foundation of Issues Management.\u201d Journal of Public Affairs<\/em> 2:4 (2002): 230\u2013246.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry, Susan. “Anonymous in Her Own Name: Public Relations Pioneer Doris Fleischman.”  Journalism History<\/em> 23:2 (Spring 1997): 50-62. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry, Susan.  “There is Nothing in This Profession That a Woman Cannot Do: Doris E. Fleischman and the Beginnings of Public Relations.” American Journalism <\/em>16:2 (Spring 1999): 85-111.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill, John W. \u201cCorporation Lawyers and Public Relations Counsel.\u201d The Business Lawyer<\/em> 14, no. 3 (1959): 587\u2013608.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holley, Jason R.  \u201cGifford Pinchot and The Fight For Conservation: The Emergence of Public Relations and the Conservation Movement, 1901-1910.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 42:2 (Summer 2016): 91-100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horsley, J. Suzanna. \u201cWomen\u2019s Contributions to American Public Relations, 1940-1970.\u201d Journal of Communication Management<\/em> 13:2 (2009): 100-115.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howlett, Michael, and Rebecca Raglon.  \u201cConstructing the Environmental Spectacle: Green Advertisements and the Greening of the Corporate Image, 1910-1990.\u201d  Environmental History Review<\/em> 16:4 (Winter 1992): 53-68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiebert, Ray Eldon.  Courtier to the Crowd: The Story of Ivy L. Lee and the Development of Public Relations. <\/em>Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill, John W.  The Making of a Public Relations Man<\/em>.  New York: McKay, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howlett, Michael, and Rebecca Raglon. \u201cConstructing the Environmental Spectacle: Green Advertisements and the Greening of the Corporate Image, 1910-1990.\u201d Environmental History Review<\/em> 16, no. 4 (1992): 53\u201368.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hulden, Vilja. \u201cEmployer Organizations\u2019 Influence on the Progressive Era Press.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 38:1 (2012): 43-54.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irwin, Will.  Propaganda and the News.  <\/em>New York: Whittlesey House, 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack, Caroline.  \u201cFun and Facts About American Business<\/em>: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series.\u201d Enterprise & Society<\/em> 16:3 (September 2015): 491-520.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack, Caroline.  Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.<\/em>  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackall, Robert, and Janine M. Hirota.  Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy.  <\/em>Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaques, Tony. \u201cHoward Chase: The Man Who Invented Issue Management.\u201d Journal of Communication Management<\/em> 12:4 (2008): 336\u2013343.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johansen, Peter.  \u201cFor Better, Higher, and Nobler Things: Massey\u2019s Pioneering Employee Publication.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 27:3 (Fall 2001): 94-104.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones, John Price, and David McLaren Church.  At the Bar of Public Opinion: A Brief for Public Relations<\/em>.  New York: Inter-River Press, 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kay, Gwen.  \u201cHealthy Public Relations: The FDA\u2019s 1930s Legislative Campaign.\u201d  Bulletin of Medical History<\/em> 75 (2001): 446-487.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly, Stanley, Jr.  Professional Public Relations and Political Power<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerr, Robert L.  “Creating the Corporate Citizen: Mobil Oil’s Editorial Advocacy Campaign in the New York Times to Advance the Right and Practice of Corporate Political Speech.”  American Journalism<\/em> 21 (Fall 2004): 39-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key, V. O.  Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups<\/em>.  Fourth edition.  New York: Crowell, 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk, Jeremy.  The Build-Up Boys<\/em>.  New York: Scribner\u2019s, 1950. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. \u201cThe Public Sentiment Building Society: The Anti-Saloon League of America, 1895-1910.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 29:3 (Fall 2003): 123-132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. \u201cOutside the Prickly Nest: Revisiting Doris Fleischman.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 24 (Summer 2007): 85\u2013107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. \u201cThe Brewers and Public Relations History, 1909-1919.\u201d Journal of Public Relations History<\/em>21:4 (October 2009): 455-477.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamme, Margot Opdyke, and Karen Miller Russell.  \u201cRemoving the Spin: Toward a New Theory of Public Relations History.\u201d  Journalism and Communication Monographs<\/em> 11:4 (Winter 2010): 281-362.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamme, Meg Opdyke. \u201cShining the Calcium Light: The WCTU and Public Relations History.\u201d   Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly<\/em> 88:2 (Summer 2011): 245-266.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamme, Margot Opdycke, and Lisa Mullikin Parcell.  \u201cPromoting Hershey: The Chocolate Bar, the Chocolate Town, the Chocolate King.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 38:4 (Winter 2013): 198-208.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamme, Margot Opdycke.  Public Relations and Religion in American History: Power of the Word<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, Ivy.  Publicity: Some of the Things it is and is Not<\/em>.  New York: Industries Publishing Co., 1925.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, Mordecai.  \u201cOrigins of the Epithet \u2018Government By Public Relations\u2019: Revisiting Bruce Catton\u2019s War Lords of Washington<\/em>.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 35 (2009): 388-394.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, Mordecai. \u201cToward Generalizing about Congressional Control Over Agency PR: The Failure of Spending Limits on Pentagon PR, 1951-1959.\u201d Public Administration Quarterly<\/em> 36:3 (Fall 2012): 341-379.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis, David L.  The Public Image of Henry Ford. <\/em>Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lloyd, Craig M.  Aggressive Introvert:<\/em> Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912-1932. <\/em>Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logan, Nneka.  \u201cCorporate Voice and Ideology: An Alternate Approach to Understanding Public Relations History.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 40:4 (November 2014): 661-668.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loomis, Christopher M. “The Politics of Uncertainty: Lobbyists and Propaganda in Early Twentieth-Century America.” Journal of Policy History<\/em> 21, no. 2 (2009): 187-213.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCamy, James L.  Federal Publicity: Its Practice in Federal Administration<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNicholas, Joseph.  \u201cWilliam S. Burroughs and Corporate Public Relations.\u201d Arizona Quarterly<\/em> 57:4 (Winter 2001): 121-149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maney, Richard.\u00a0\u00a0Fanfare, the Confessions of a Press Agent<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Harper, 1957.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marchand, Roland. \u201cThe Designers Go to the Fair: Walter Dorwin Teague and the Professionalization of Corporate Industrial Exhibits, 1933-1940.\u201d\u00a0Design Issues<\/em>\u00a08, no. 1 (1991): 4\u201317.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marchand, Roland. \u201cThe Designers Go to the Fair II: Norman Bel Geddes, The General Motors \u2018Futurama,\u2019 and the Visit to the Factory Transformed.\u201d\u00a0Design Issues<\/em>\u00a08, no. 2 (1992): 23\u201340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marchand, Roland.\u00a0Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martinelli, Diana Knott, and Shannon A. Bowen.  \u201cThe Public Relations Work of Journalism Trailblazer and First Lady Confident Lorena Hickok, 1937-45.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 35:3 (Fall 2009): 131-140.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyerhoff, Arthur E.  The Strategy of Persuasion: The Use of Advertising Skills in Fighting the Cold War<\/em>.  New York: Coward-McCann, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, Karen. \u201cAir Power is Peace Power: The Aircraft Industry\u2019s Campaign for Public and Political Support, 1943-1949.\u201d Business History Review<\/em> 70:3 (Autumn 1996): 297-327.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, Karen S. The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller Russell, Karen.  \u201cUnderstanding Ivy Lee\u2019s Declaration of Principles: U.S. Newspaper and Magazine Coverage of Publicity and Press Agentry, 1865-1904.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 35 (2009): 91-101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller Russell, Karen, and Margot Opdycke Lamme.  \u201cPublic Relations and Business Reponses to the Civil Rights Movement.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 39 (2013): 63-73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller Russell, Karen, and Margot Opdycke Lamme.  \u201cTheorizing Public Relations History: The Roles of Strategic Intent and Human agency.\u201d  Public Relations Review<\/em> 42:5 (December 2016): 741-747.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mller Russell, Karen, and Cayce Myers.  \u201cThe Misunderstood Nineteenth Century U.S. Press Agent.\u201d  Public Relations Review<\/em>45:2 (June 2019): 246-257.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller Russell, Karen.  \u201cThe Power of Women: Flanley & Woodward and the Woman\u2019s Angle in U.S. Public Relations.\u201d Public Relations Review<\/em> 46:4 (2020): 1-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller Russell, Karen.  Promoting Monopoly: AT&T and the Politics of Public Relations, 1876-1941<\/em>.  New York: Peter Lang, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mittell, Jason S.  \u201cInvisible Footage: Industry on Parade<\/em> and Television Historiography.\u201d Film History<\/em> 9:2 (1997): 200-218.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monticone, Paul.  \u201cUseful Cinema, of What Use?:  Assessing the Role of Motion Pictures in the Largest Public Relations Campaign of the 1920s.\u201d  Cinema Journal<\/em> 54:4 (Summer 2015): 74-99.     Utility company public relations films<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore, Colin D.  \u201cThe Voluntary Way is the American Way: The AMA\u2019s Campaign for Private Health Insurance, 1945-1950.\u201d Journal of Policy History<\/em> 37:2 (2025): 199-222.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore, Kimbery Williams.  “Toward and Inclusive History of PR: An Examination of the Founding of the NAACP and ADL and Their Uses of PR, 1907-1917.”  PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moran, Christopher Richard. \u201cThe Last Assignment: David Atlee Phillips and the Birth of CIA Public Relations.\u201d International History Review<\/em> 35 (April 2013): 337\u2013355.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mullikin Parcell, Lisa, Margot Opdycke Lamme, and Skye Chance Cooley. \u201cLearning from the Trades: Public Relations, Journalism, and News Release Writing, 1945-2000.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 28:2 (2011): 82-112.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mullikin Parcell, Lisa, and Margot Opdyke Lamme.  \u201cNot Merely an Advertisement: Purity, Trust, and Flour, 1880-1930,\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 29:4 (Fall 2012): 94-127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musgrave, Kevin.  \u201cCapitalism and Pastoral Power in Bruce Barton\u2019s \u2018The Public.\u2019\u201d Rhetoric & Public Affairs<\/em> 20:1 (2017): 133-160.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myers, Cayce.  \u201cReconsidering Propaganda in U.S. Public Relations History: An Analysis of Propaganda in the Popular Press, 1810-1918.\u201d  Public Relations Review<\/em> 41(2015): 551-561.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myers, Cayce.  \u201cReconsidering the Corporate Narrative in U.S. PR History: A Critique of Alfred Chandler\u2019s Influence on PR Historiography.\u201d  Public Relations Review<\/em> 40:4 (November 2014): 676-683.

Myers, Cace.  \u201cPublicists in US Public Relations History: An Analysis of Representations of Publicists, 1815-1918.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 34:1 (Winter 2017): 71-90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myers, Cayce.  \u201cRegulating Public Relations: How U.S. Legal Policies and Regulations Shaped Early Corporate Public Relations.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 37:2 (Spring 2020): 139-164.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myers, Cayce.  Public Relations History: Theory, Practice and Profession<\/em>. New York: Routledge, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nye,<\/em> David E.  Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930.<\/em> Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olasky, Marvin.  “Bringing Order Out of Chaos: Edward Bernays and the Salvation of Society Through Public Relations.”  Journalism History<\/em> 12:1 (Spring 1985): 17-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olasky, Marvin. “Corporate Public Relations: A New Historical Perspective.<\/em>“ Journalism Monographs<\/em>, No. 102 (1987).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page, Tyler G., Christopher Wilson, and Edward E. Adams. \u201cRethinking the Start Date for Media Relations and Press Releases: The Peace Movement of the 1800s.\u201d Public Relations Review <\/em>50:1 (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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