The first part of the proceedings of this conference of journalism historians contains the following 21 papers: "'Life' Magazine and the Mercury 7 Astronauts: A Historic Case of Media Control" (Ginger Rudeseal Carter); "Newspaper Contempt between the Wars" (Richard Scheidenhelm); "Crosses Holding Off a Vampire: How Four Newspapers Used Editorials to Define Their First Amendment Functions" (James B. McPherson); "Jurisdiction Over the Body: Themes in Coverage of the Garfield Assassination" (Peter Ausenhus); "Standing Idly By: Newspaper Coverage of the 1958-59 Investigation into Homosexuality at the University of Florida" (Ford Risley); "Public Relations, the Community, and Newspaper Coverage of a Local Steel Strike, 1946" (Karen S. Miller); "'The Ladies Companion,' 1834-1844: A Magazine of 'Polite' Literature" (Paul Belgrade); "The Proceedings of the Rebellious Negroes: News of Slave Insurrections and Crimes in Colonial Newspapers" (David A. Copeland); "Visible Hand: The Journalistic Drive to Incorporate a Frontier" (David J. Vergobbi); "The Leo Frank Case and the Post-Conviction Press, 1913-1915" (Jill J. Cohen); "Banana-Peel Journalism: P. S. Lovejoy and the Fight for the Cutover, 1919-1923" (James Kates); "Presidents Madison and Monroe and the Party Press in Transition, 1808-1824" (David R. Davies); "Who's the Boss?: The Influence of Black Women Journalists of 'Ringwood's Journal'" (Bernell E. Tripp); "The 'Big Six' and Muckraking: Re-examining 'Exposure Journalism'" (Kathleen L. Endres); "Historical Perspective in Magazine Design: The Need to Go Forward into the Past in a Technological Age" (Carol E. Holstead); "A Brief History of the Environmental Movement in the United States: Mass Media and Social Forces" (Mark Neuzil); "The Rip Rap Shoal Story: First Precedent for Revealing the Identity of a Journalist's Source" (Robert L. Spellman); "'Treason's Biggest Victory': How the National News Magazines Covered the 1957 Supreme Court 'Red Monday' Cases" (Bradley J. Hamm); "African Americans and the White-Owned Mississippi Press: An Analysis of Photographic Coverage from 1944 to 1984" (Susan Weill); "Mississippi Journalists, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Closed Society, 1960-1964" (David R. Davies); and "Somebody Out There Is Listening: The WOR Radio Broadcasts of Mary Margaret McBride" (Beverly G. Merrick). (RS)