West Chair of Excellence Books
Books by David Sachsman
The Civil War Soldier and the Press (with Katrina Quinn), in preparation.
Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News and Public Policy (with Eric Freedman and Sara Shipley Hiles) London: Routledge, August 2021.
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism (with JoAnn Myer Valenti) London: Routledge, spring 2020.
The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War (with Gregory Borchard and Dea Lisica) New York & London: Routledge, summer 2019.
After the War: The Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900 (with Dea Lisica) New York, NY: Transaction Publishers (now Routledge/Taylor & Francis), 2017. See more at Amazon.com.
A Press Divided: Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2014. See more at Amazon.com
The Press and the Suburbs: The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey (with a new preface by David B. Sachsman) (with Warren Sloat) New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2013. See more at Amazon.com
Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting (with David W. Bulla) New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2013. See also at Amazon.com
Environment Reporters in the 21st Century (with James Simon and JoAnn Myer Valenti) New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2010. See also at Google Books. See review at SagePub. Read review in PDF.
Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press (with S. Kittrell Rushing and Roy Morris Jr., eds.) West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2009. See also at Google Books. Read review in PDF.
Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism (with S. Kittrell Rushing and Roy Morris Jr., eds.) West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2008. See also at Google Books.
Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain (with S. Kittrell Rushing and Roy Morris Jr., eds.) West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2007. See also at Google Books. See review here. Read review in PDF.
The Reporter’s Environmental Handbook, Third Edition. (with Bernadette M.West, M. Jane Lewis, Michael R. Greenberg, and Renee M. Rogers) New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003. See also at Google Books.
The Civil War and the Press. (with S. Kittrell Rushing and Debra Reddin van Tuyll, eds. and with Ryan P. Burkholder) New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2000. See also at Google Books. Read review in PDF.
Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Communication and Our Environment. (with Kandice Salomone and Susan Senecah, eds.) Chattanooga: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Graphic Services, 1997.
The Environmental News Source: Providing Environmental Risk Information to the Media. (with Peter M. Sandman and Michael R. Greenberg) Newark, N.J.: Risk Communication Project, Hazardous Substance Management Research Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology, February 1992, October 1988. See also at Google Books.
Environmental Reporter’s Handbook. (with Michael R. Greenberg and Peter M. Sandman) Newark, N.J.: Environmental Risk Reporting Project, Hazardous Substance Management Research Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1988.
Environmental Risk and the Press: An Exploratory Assessment. (with Peter M. Sandman, Michael R. Greenberg, and Michael Gochfeld) New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Inc., Rutgers University, 1987. See also at Google Books.
The Environmental News Source: Informing the Media During An Environmental Crisis. (with Sandman and Greenberg) Newark, N.J.: Risk Communication Project, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Center for Research in Hazardous and Toxic Substances, NJIT, March 1987. (This monograph has been incorporated into The Environmental News Source: Providing Environmental Risk Information to the Media.) See also at Google Books
Providing Environmental Risk Information to the Media: A Feasibility Study. (with Sandman, Greenberg, Laurel Van Leer, Mayme Jurkat, Audrey R. Gotsch, and Michael Gochfeld) Newark, N.J.: Environmental Risk Reporting Project, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Center for Research in Hazardous and Toxic Substances, NJIT, March 1986. (This monograph has been incorporated into Environmental Risk and the Press: An Exploratory Assessment.)
Environmental Risk Reporting in New Jersey Newspapers. (with Sandman, Greenberg, Jurkat, Gotsch, and Gochfeld) Newark, N.J.: Environmental Risk Reporting Project, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Center for Research in Hazardous and Toxic Substances, NJIT, January 1986. (This monograph has been incorporated into Environmental Risk and the Press: An Exploratory Assessment.)
The Press and the Suburbs: The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey. (with Warren Sloat) New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1985. See also at Google Books.
Media: An Introductory Analysis of American Mass Communications. (with Peter M. Sandman and David M. Rubin) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982, 1976, 1972. (Media has been adopted by more than 200 colleges and universities in the U.S. and other nations.) See also at Google Books.
Media Casebook: An Introductory Reader in American Mass Communications. (with Sandman and Rubin, eds.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977, 1972. See also at Google Books.