Advisor: Binford, Henry (NHC Fellow, 1990–91)

By Wason, Marianne (NHC Assistant Director of Education Programs, Online Resources, 1997–2014)

Commercial radio broadcasting, a technological innovation in the 1920s, transformed American culture and politics. Whether those transformations were a boon or bane to society provoked as compelling a debate then as do the changes wrought by social media and the Internet today. The debate reflects the worry and hope with which Americans greeted new technologies in the 1920s.

Subjects

History / Technology / Education Studies / Radio / Popular Culture / American History / Mass Media / Primary Sources /