Friends and colleagues,
Here are two links of special interest.
First, *Marti Harvey's UT-Arlington Masters Thesis on /The Rag/* is now
up online in pdf. format. ("The Evolution of /The Rag/: An Analysis of
the Social, Political and Technological Influences on the Birth of One
Underground Newspaper in the 1960s.") It is very ambitious and is full
of interesting material. For those of you who are familiar with what
we're doing now but don't know where we're coming from, you should read
it. Others among you will find yourselves in Marti's narrative.
http://dspace.uta.edu/bitstream/handle/10106/4941/Harvey_uta_2502M_10676.pdf?sequence=1
Also, please check out the *Wikipedia article about Margaret Webb
Dreyer*. Many of you out there don't know her story -- and if you do,
this should fill in some significant pieces. My mother was a remarkable
larger-than-life personality, an important artist and peace activist,
and a force in Houston history. She's included in UT-Austin's "Gallery
of Great Texas Women."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Webb_Dreyer
And, as long as I'm updating you, two books about the underground press
coming out early in 2011 have substantial coverage of the role played by
/The Rag/ (and /Space City!/) in the development of the 60s underground
press. (The underground press is increasingly being acknowledged by
historians as an important chapter in the evolution of journalism -- and
for it its seminal role in the rise of the New Left and the 60s
counterculture.
John McMillian, in his */Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground
Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America/*, published by
Oxford Press, gives major credit to /The Rag/ and includes numerous
references and excerpts.
And Ken Wachsberger's */Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground
Press (Voices from the Underground)/* is an anthology that includes an
essay by Victoria Smith on the short but very eventful history of /Space
Ctiy! /in Houston.
We also receive major coverage in a multi-volume encyclopedia published
earlier this year: */Conflicts in American History: A Documentary
Encyclopedia/*. Volume VII includes a section on "The New Left and the
Underground Press," with a documents section that includes all or part
of three different articles I wrote (one with Victoria Smith) for /The
Rag/ or Liberation News Service. It also features a full-page image of a
letter I wrote to the Underground Press Syndicate in 1966 announcing the
birth of /The Rag,/ and includes me in its Biographies section.
Thanks,
Thorne
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*Thorne Webb Dreyer
*The New Journalism Project
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