Week 16 - "Thought News" query

Search for (Dewey + Thought News)
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*Results from Westbrook's section on Thought News:

In reference to quotes: "I got to Dewey," and "In place of discussing 'socialism,' we put out in the rightful sense of the word, the socialistic newspaper--the organ of the whole."
-Ford, Franklin. "Draft of Action." Ann Arbor, July 1, 1892. p 2-3, 8. Copy in the library of California State University, Fullerton.
---Not in HELIN, not on Google.
---Supposedly in a compilation of letters entitled Progressive Masks: Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Franklin Ford, edited by David Henry Burton, pages 20 and 58. Not in HELIN, ILL'ed 9/4/07.
---Also quoted in Neil Coughlan's Young John Dewey, page 96, though it's indefinite whether the entire draft is published here. Requested from RIC 9/4/07.

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Initial Studies on "Thought News":
-Savage, Willinda, "The Evolution of John Dewey's Philosophy of Experimentalism as Developed at the University of Michigan." PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 1950. p 140-151.
---Not in HELIN, not on Google. ILL'ed 9/4/07.

-Savage, Willinda. "John Dewey and 'Thought News' at the University of Michigan." Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review 56.18, Spring (1950): 204-209.
---Not in HELIN, not on Google. ILL'ed 9/4/07.

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Follow-up Studies to Savage's Work:
-Feuer, Lewis S. "John Dewey and the Back to the People Movement in American Thought." Journal of the History of Ideas 20.4 (1959): 548-553.
---Link to text on JSTOR: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-5037%28195910%2F12%2920%3A4%3C545%3AJDATBT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

-Coughlan, Young John Dewey, p 93-112.
---Requested from RIC 9/4/07.

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A view from the perspective of another participant, Robert Park:
-Matthews, Fred H. Quest for an American Sociology: Robert E. Park and the Chicago School (Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 1977), p 20-30.
---Available at URI. Call #: HM22 U6 P345.

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John Dewey's conversational pieces with others about the forthcoming Thought News publication (pages 54 and 55 in Westbrook):
-"Memorandum" in John Dewey to Henry Carter Adams, 29 April 1889, Henry Carter Adams Papers, Michigan Historical Collections, University of Michigan.
---Requested a scan via WorldCat from University of Michigan 9/4/07.

-John Dewey to William James, 3 June 1891, in Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James (Boston: Little Brown, 1935), 518-519.
---Requested from RIC 9/4/07.

-Copy of circular in John Dewey to Thomas Davidson, 8 March 1892, Thomas Davidson Papers, Yale University
---Requested via WorldCat from Yale 9/4/07. NOT AVAILABLE.

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Detroit Tribune Archives: There have been so many different editions of this newspaper and so many bundlings of issues that I think I'm going to have to seek assistance in the microfiche area. This is on hold for now...
-Press Release quoted in Detroit Tribune, 10 April 1892, page 3. (Press release is the publication of Ford's second announcement describing Thought News without Dewey's knowledge or consent.)

-Detroit Tribune, 10 April 1892, 13 April 1892. (Criticism of Dewey's affiliation with Thought News by Detroit Tribune correspondents).

-"He's Planned No Revolution," Detroit Tribune, 13 April 1892. (Quote of Dewey repudiating Ford's claims on the aim of Thought News).

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John Dewey to Willinda Savage on the inevitable failure of Thought News:
-John Dewey to Willinda Savage, 30 May 1949, as quoted in "The Evolution of Dewey's Philosophy," p 150.
---ILL'ed 9/4/07.

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Corydon Ford's accusations against Dewey for his withdrawal from the project:
-Corydon Ford, The Child of Democracy (Ann Arbor, Michigan.: John V. Sheehan and Co., 1894), p 175.
---ILL'ed 9/4/07.

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*Random findings:
-John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism By Steven C. Rockefeller has a chapter entitled "Socializing Intelligence and the 'Thought News' Affair." Starts on page 172.
---Available at URI. Call #: B945 D44 R57 1991.

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*Google:

-School of Education website for the University of Michigan.
---Has a section on Dewey's involvement with Thought News, including a scan of an advertisement and several footnotes that may be valuable. Link: http://www.soe.umich.edu/dewey/thoughtnews/index.html

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*EBSCOHost (Academic Search Premier, LISTA, EJS E-Journals, Topicsearch, Academic Search Elite, MasterFILE Premier):

-Meilleur, Maurice. "John Dewey Redux." Antioch Review, Winter 2005, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p 173-184.
---A review of Jay Martin's biography on Dewey. Martin posits that the Thought News episode correlates with the process of public inquiry and, despite the fact that Thought News failed to be published, Dewey's goals for this project were meritable. Page 3. Link to full text: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16146226&site=ehost-live

-Martin, Jay. The Education of John Dewey. New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
---Available at URI. Call #: B945.D44 M29 2002.

-Bronstein, Carolyn and Vaughn, Stephen. "Willard G. Bleyer and the relevance of journalism education." Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs. June 1998. Issue 166, p 1-36.
---Examines Willard G. Bleyer's contributions to journalism and argues that Bleyer actualized the intended missions of Thought News. Contains a footnote to a new source that quotes Dewey's initial praise of the newspaper:

"Quotation. Michigan Daily. March 16, 1892, quoted in Czitrom. Media
and the America Mind, 107, See also. Czitrom, 104-8; Everett M.
Rogers. A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach
(New York: Free Press, 1994). 174; and James W. Carey, "Commentary:
Communications and the Progressives," Critical Studies in Mass
Communication 6 (1989), 271-72"

Link to full text: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=779747&site=ehost-live

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*Project Muse:

-Auxier, Randall E. "Foucault, Dewey, and the History of the Present." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 16.2, 2002 (New Series), pp. 75-102.
---Reports Delladale's speculated correlations between Foucault and Dewey. Suggests that Foucault may have been motivated by Dewey's achievements, particularly in journalism. Link to full text: http://0-muse.jhu.edu.helin.uri.edu/journals/journal_of_speculative_philosophy/v016/16.2auxier.html

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*Literature Resource Center:

Repeats.

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*JSTOR:

-All relevant records simply repeat what Westbrook, Savage, or Coughlin have already said. Including Westhoff's "Popularization of Knowledge..." which we have already obtained.

-David H. Burton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Franklin Ford. "The Curious Correspondence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Franklin Ford." The New England Quarterly 53.2, (Jun., 1980), pp. 196-211.
---Page 198 offers a footnote with references to other works that treat Ford's involvement in Journalism. Footnote about Dewey's involvement suggests Coughlin's book. Link to text: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-4866%28198006%2953%3A2%3C196%3ATCCOJO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I

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*CSA (Communication Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, PAIS archive/International, Philosopher's Index):

Repeats.

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*Web of Science (ISI):

-Pinter, A. "Thought News - A quest for democratic communication technology." Javnost: The Public 10 (2): 93-104 JUN 2003.
---"Abstract: This paper presents an analytical framework for a reading of the Thought News project as an attempt to democratize the means of mass communication. The project was a creative endeavour of a former journalist Ford, and the American pragmatists, Dewey, Park, and Mead to set up an accessible newspaper about complex social processes. Because of its emphasis on the conditions of information diffusion as integrative and on the possible social bearing of theoretical knowledge, the project represents a typical nineteenth century reflection on mass communication. In this sense, it is comparable to the contemporaneous theories of Tarde and Schaffle, who similarly sought to improve the performance of the press. Arguably, central concerns of the project have not been obliterated by the new communication technologies, but persist instructively for our present uses of them." Link to full text: http://www.javnost-thepublic.org/media/datoteke/pinter-2-2003-6.pdf

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*HELIN:

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