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The Man Who Built Forward Better
Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape creations, especially his urban parks, remain a vital part of our present.
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Witold Rybczynski
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The Hedgehog Review
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March 1, 2022
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The Black Press Provides a Model for How Mainstream News Can Better Cover Racism
Digging deeper, offering historical context and going beyond official narratives will better serve the audience.
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Olivia Paschal
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Made by History
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February 17, 2022
What History Tells us About the Dangers of Media Ownership
Is media bias attributable to corporate power or personal psychology? Upton Sinclair and Walter Lippmann disagreed.
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Maia Silber
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Psyche
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December 15, 2021
The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History
The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.
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Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
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December 8, 2021
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Truth and Truthiness
Americans have been arguing over the role and rules of journalism since the very beginning.
The Miracle of Stephen Crane
Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.
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Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
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October 18, 2021
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Introducing American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside
This overlooked corner of the press provided news by and for people incarcerated. A newly available archive shows it worked hard to reach outside audiences too.
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Kate McQueen
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JSTOR Daily
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September 22, 2021
From TV News Tickers to Homeland: The Ways TV Was Affected By 9/11
There is a long list of ways America was transformed by the terrorist attacks. But the question of how TV itself was changed is more complicated.
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Eric Deggans
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NPR
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September 10, 2021
9/11 was a Test. The Books of the Last Two Decades Show How America Failed.
The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.
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Carlos Lozada
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Washington Post
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September 3, 2021
‘The Temperature in Saigon Is 105 and Rising’
What I learned about American power watching the U.S. leave Vietnam — and then Afghanistan decades later.
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Phil Caputo
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Politico Magazine
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August 21, 2021
Man-Bat and Raven: Poe on the Moon
A new book recovers the reputation Poe had in his own lifetime of being a cross between a science writer, a poet, and a man of letters.
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Mike Jay
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London Review of Books
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June 24, 2021
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The Irony of Complaints About Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Advocacy Journalism
The White press helped destroy democracy in the South. Black journalists developed an activist tradition because they had to.
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Sid Bedingfield
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Made by History
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June 24, 2021
When the Government Supported Writers
Government support created jobs, built trust, and invigorated American literature. We should try it again.
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Max Holleran
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The New Republic
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June 15, 2021
The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Two pioneering Black writers have not received the recognition they deserve for chronicling one of the country’s gravest crimes.
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Victor Luckerson
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The New Yorker
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May 28, 2021
Skewed View of Tulsa Race Massacre Started on Day 1 With 'The Story That Set Tulsa Ablaze'
A Tulsa Tribune newspaper story of an alleged assault attempt helped instigate the Tulsa Race Massacre, leaving hundreds dead along Black Wall Street.
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Dave Cathey
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The Oklahoman
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May 26, 2021
A Brief History of the New York Times Wedding Announcements
Cate Doty on the evolution of a society mainstay.
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Cate Doty
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Literary Hub
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May 14, 2021
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Muhammad Speaks for Freedom, Justice, and Equality
The official newspaper of the Nation of Islam—published from 1960-1975—combined investigative journalism and Black Nationalist views on racial uplift.
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Khuram Hussain
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JSTOR Daily
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May 13, 2021
How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s
Ken Ellingwood on the social and political function of political media.
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Ken Ellingwood
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Literary Hub
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May 6, 2021
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Elijah Lovejoy Faced Down Violent Mobs to Champion Abolition and the Free Press
Lovejoy, who ran a weekly paper called the Observer, was repeatedly targeted by mobs over his persistent writings against slavery.
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Ken Ellingwood
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HNN
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May 2, 2021
The Lost Legacy of the Girl Stunt Reporter
At the end of the nineteenth century, a wave of women rethought what journalism could say, sound like, and do. Why were they forgotten?
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Katy Waldman
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The New Yorker
on
April 29, 2021
American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror
History must be acknowledged before justice can be done.
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Channing Gerard Joseph
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The Nation
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April 19, 2021
The History of American Newspapers is More Searchable Than Ever
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's problems are new.
by
Joshua Benton
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Nieman Lab
on
February 2, 2021
On Atonement
News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.
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Alexandria Neason
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Columbia Journalism Review
on
January 28, 2021
The Caning of Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate: White Supremacist Violence in Pen and Pixels
Absent social media, the artists of the past shaped public knowledge of historical events through illustrations.
by
Peter H. Wood
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Harlin J. Gradinn
via
Tropics of Meta
on
January 20, 2021
The Enduring Lessons of a New Deal Writers Project
The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.
by
Jon Allsop
via
Columbia Journalism Review
on
December 22, 2020
Superpredator
The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.
by
Carroll Bogert
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Lynnell Hancock
via
The Marshall Project
on
November 20, 2020
Why Americans Will Never Turn Against Polling
Failures inspire distrust of pollsters and calls for more shoe-leather reporting. But by the next election, we always come running back.
by
Rebecca Onion
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W. Joseph Campbell
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Slate
on
November 5, 2020
How the 1619 Project Took Over 2020
It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.
by
Sarah Ellison
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Washington Post
on
October 13, 2020
US Media Talks a Lot About Palestinians — Just Without Palestinians
Although major U.S. newspapers hosted thousands of opinion pieces on Israel-Palestine over 50 years, hardly any were actually written by Palestinians.
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Maha Nassar
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+972 Magazine
on
October 2, 2020
Peak Newsletter? That Was 80 Years Ago
In the 1940s, journalists fled traditional news outlets to write directly for subscribers. What happened next may be a warning.
by
Michael Waters
via
Wired
on
September 28, 2020
We Had Witnessed an Exhibition
A new book about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping focuses on the role played by the media.
by
Chris Yogerst
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
September 24, 2020
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