Publications

Selected Publications

Books:

Hamilton, J.M. (2024) The French 75. Louisiana State University Press.

Hamilton, J.M. (2020). Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda. Louisiana State University Press.

Hamilton, J.M. (2009). Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Newsgathering Abroad. Louisiana State University Press.

Hamilton, J.M. (2000). Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, the Selling, and the Reading of Books. Louisiana State University Press; (2001) Penguin.

Hamilton, J.M., and Krimsky, G.A. (1996). Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers. Louisiana State University Press.

Hamilton, J.M. (1990). Entangling Alliances: How the Third World Shapes Our Lives. Seven Locks Press.

Hamilton, J.M. (1988). Edgar Snow: A Biography. Indiana University Press.

Hamilton, J.M. (1986). Main Street America and the Third World. Seven Locks Press.

From Our Correspondent Series, LSU Press: John Maxwell Hamilton, Editor

Finn, P., and Hamilton, J.M. (2022). Edited and introduction. Herbert Corey’s Great War : A Memoir of World War I, by the American Reporter Who Saw It All. 

Copeland, P. (2019). Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter. 

Hamilton, J.M., and Mann, R. (2012). Edited, annotated, and introduction. Ray Stannard Baker, A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary.

Curley, T., and Hamilton, J.M. (2012). Edited and introduction. Edward Kennedy, Ed Kennedy's War: V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press. 

Topping, S. (2010). On The Front Lines of the Cold War. 

Hamilton, J.M. (2010). Edited and introduction. George Lynch and Frederick Palmer, eds., In Many Wars by Many War Correspondents. 

Fleming, A, and Hamilton, J.M. (2009). Edited and introduction. The Crimean War: As Seen By Those Who Reported It. 

Cole, Jaci, and Hamilton, J.M. (2007). Edited, annotated, and introduction. Journalism of the Highest Realm: The Memoir of Edward Price Bell, Pioneering Foreign Correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. 

Waugh, E., and Hamilton, J.M. (2007). Edited and introduction. Waugh in Abyssinia. 

Edited Books:

Hamilton, J.M., and Whitehead, A.S. (2019). Edited and introduction. Samuel Hopkins Adams, Common Cause. 

Hamilton, J.M., and Lawrence, R.G. (2012). Edited. Foreign Correspondence. 

Perlmutter, D., and Hamilton, J.M. (2007). Edited. From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology. 

Selected Articles:

Fondren, E. and Hamilton, J.M. (2023). "The Universal Laws of Propaganda: World War I and the Origin of Government Manufacture of Opinion," Journal of Intelligence History, 23:1.

Hamilton, J.M., McCluskey, L., and Reynolds, A. (June 2023). "When Propaganda Became a Dirty Word," Journalism History, 49:2.

Hamilton, J.M. and Tworek, H. (May 2023). "Not 'All the News That's Fit to Print': The New York Times as a Research Tool," Political Communication, print forthcoming.

Hamilton, J.M. and Oden, A. (Spring 2023). "'By Far the Best of Our Foreign Representatives': Vira B. Whitehouse and the Origins of Public Diplomacy," American Journalism, 40:2.

Hamilton, J.M. (2023). "American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis," American Purpose.

Finn, P. and Hamilton, J.M. (2022). "Herbert Corey’s Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All," Washington Post.

Hamilton, J.M., and Kosar, K.R. (2022). "Why Biden is in Danger of Replicating Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine," Politico.

Henderson, M., and Hamilton, J.M. (2020). "Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies," Social Science Quarterly, 101:1.

Hamilton, J.M. and Tworek, H., (April 2017)."The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study," Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 18:4.

McCune, M. and Hamilton, J.M. (2017)."'My object is to be of service to you': Carl Ackerman and the Wilson administration during World War I," Intelligence and National Security, 32:6.

Hamilton, J.M. (Spring 2015)."The Gospel of Book Theft," The Sewanee Review, 123:2.

Hamilton, J.M. (2014)."Journalism Education: The View from the Provost's Office," Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 69:3.

Cozma, R., Lawrence, R., and Hamilton, J.M. (2012), "Sourcing in Foreign Correspondence: A Study in the Evolution of Norms and Routines," Newspaper Research Journal.

Hamilton, J.M., and Lawrence, R. (October 2010), "Bridging Past and Future: Using History and Practice to Inform Social Science Study of Foreign Newsgathering," Journalism Studies, 11:5.

Allen, C. and Hamilton, J. (October 2010). "Normalcy and Foreign News," Journalism Studies, 11:5.

Hamilton, J., Lawrence, R. and Cozma, R. (January 2010), "The Paradox of Respectability: The Limits of Indexing and Harrison Salisbury's Coverage of the Vietnam War," The International Journal of Press/Politics.

DeFleur, M, Kurpius, D., Osborne, A and Hamilton, J.M. (January 2010). "The Masters: Creating a New Generation of Leaders for Mass Communication Education and Beyond," Communication Education, 59:1.

Cozma, R. , and Hamilton, J.M. (August 2009)., "Film Portrayals of Foreign Correspondents: A Content Analysis of Movies before WWII and after Vietnam," Journalism Studies.

Cole, J., and Hamilton, J.M. (Spring 2008)., "Another Test of the News: American Partisan Press Coverage of the French Revolution," Journalism History.

Cole, J., and Hamilton, J.M. (October 2008)., "The History of a Surviving Species: Defining Eras in the Evolution of Foreign Correspondence," Journalism Studies.

Cole, J. , and Hamilton, J.M. (Spring 2007). "A Natural History of Foreign Correspondence: A Study of the Chicago Daily News, 1900-1921)," Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 84:1.

Hamilton, J.M., Coleman, R., Grable, B. and Cole, J. (February 2006). "An Enabling Environment: A Reconsideration of the Press and the Spanish-American War," Journalism Studies.

Erickson, E., and Hamilton, J.M. (February 2006). "Foreign Reporting Enhanced by Parachute Journalism," Journalism Studies.

Rowley, K., and Hamilton, J.M. (Fall 2005). "A Missing Link in the History of American War Correspondents: James Bradford and the Time Piece of St. Francisville, Louisiana," American Journalism.

Broussard, J., and Hamilton, J.M. (Summer 2005). "Covering a Two-Front War: African-American Foreign Correspondents During World War II," American Journalism.

Wu, H.D., & Hamilton, J.M. (February 2005). "U.S. Foreign Correspondents: Changes and Continuity at the Turn of the Century," International Communication Gazette.

Hamilton, J.M., & Jenner, E. (August 2004). "Redefining Foreign Correspondence," Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.

Hamilton, J.M., and Jenner, E. (2003). "The New Foreign Correspondence," Foreign Affairs.

Reports:

Folkerts, J., Hamilton, J. M., & Lemann, N. (2013). Educating Journalists: A New Plea for the University Tradition, Columbia University School of Journalism and Carnegie Corporation.

Hamilton, J. M. & Kosar, K. R. (2016). Government Information and Propaganda: How to Draw a Line? R. Street Policy Study No. 73.