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A feud between two nineteenth-century German-language newspapers showed that immigrant communities embraced a diversity of interests and beliefs.

We can’t blame Joe McCarthy for this one. (Though he was a fan.)

How was the famous prisoner uprising and its aftermath depicted in the prison press? The American Prison Newspapers collection on JSTOR has answers.

Looking back at half a century of truth-telling and rebelling.

Restoring the term “burnout” to its roots in landlord arson puts the dispossession of poor city dwellers at its center.

In the 1950's, Rep. Douglas Stringfellow was a promising young congressman with an incredible World War II story. Then the truth came out.

The following piece presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic over the last year.

Mr. Shakespeare's team oversaw ads and on-air events that reflected the rising power of television as a political tool.

On the rise and fall of the quintessential ’90s online service provider—and a warning about today’s social-media giants.

An interactive scholarly work that uncovers the history of the Bible in the 19th- and early 20th-century United States.

The 11-foot-tall elephant reshaped our language, which has proved surprisingly apt.

For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America.

Fuel for the revolution came from a source familiar today: distorted news reports used to drum up enthusiasm for overthrowing an illegitimate government.

At the turn of the century, Mexican American publications paid a price for challenging the local sheriff and elements of the Texas Rangers.

The use of ‘y'all’ has often been seen as vulgar, low-class and uncultured. That’s starting to change.

A new book exalts the heyday of music magazines, when electric prose reigned and egos collided.

Pseudonyms allowed Adams to audition ideas and venture out on limbs without fear of reprisal.

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

A new book offers a picture of an early Internet defined by community, experimentation, and lack of privacy. 

Newspaper announcements from 1859 reveal how some Richmond slaveholders organized to protect the institution of slavery.

Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

An exploration of the potential effects of regional accents on poetry and slant-rhyme.

One of the earliest uses of intertitles, in this fin-de-siècle accident picture we can observe cinema discovering new forms of communication.

Shows from "Mr. Belvedere" to "Grace Under Fire" fought ignorance and prejudice with more care and passion than many who had been elected to public office

The modern misunderstanding of the term "people of color" and the racial categories associated.

Examining enslaved mothers and antislavery literature on the eve of war.

For pioneering journalist Bessie Beatty, women’s suffrage and the plight of labor were linked inextricably.

How will they interpret the past?

Walter Lippmann’s seminal work identified a fundamental problem for modern democratic society that remains as pressing—and intractable—as ever.