Work/Cited is a new program series that showcases the latest scholarship supported by the rich collections of The New York Public Library with a behind-the-scenes look at how the finished product was inspired, researched, and created.

In this episode from May 5, 2021 NYPL's Ian Fowler was joined by Dr. Julie Golia, also of NYPL. They discussed Julie's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age. They also explored the creative ways that Golia used the Library's newspaper collections to research the rise of newspaper advice columns in early 20th-century America.

Episode recording and transcript

Work/Cited Episode 7: Finding Princess Mysteria and Other Adventures in Mining the Newspaper from The New York Public Library on Vimeo.

You can find the transcript here.

Episode References and Additional Resources

The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America / Jacob S. Dorman. 

Golia, Julie A. “Courting Women, Courting Advertisers: The Woman’s Page and the Transformation of the American Newspaper, 1895–1935.” Journal of American History 103, no. 3 (December 2016): 606–628

Newsprint Metropolis [electronic resource]: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans / Julia Guarneri.

Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education / David Gudelunas

Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 / Jean Marie Lutes.

About the Work/Cited Series

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