Since the mid-19^th century, when America has gone to war, professional journalists have provided citizens’ with most of their information.   Journalism has struggled with the tensions which inevitably arise from this central role in the nation’s wars: how to balance the norms of professional journalism with loyalty to the United States, how to negotiate government efforts to use the press to mobilize and maintain support for war, how to balance citizen’s right-to-know with the need for military secrecy during war, and so forth.   While these challenges are enduring, they have been addressed quite differently as both the nature of military conflict and the structure of the media have dramatically changed over the last 150 years.  This seminar will explore and critically evaluate the evolution of press coverage of war from the emergence of the war correspondent in the mid-19^th century to the 21^st century War on Terrorism and the “crisis” of professional journalism itself.