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The Racist Politics of the English Language

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on November 20, 2018
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'The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril'

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
by Jill Lepore, Evan Goldstein via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 13, 2018

When Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media

Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.
by Matt Giles via Longreads on November 8, 2018

How Americans Described Evil Before Hitler

Commentators compared the Nazi leader to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar.
by Gavriel Rosenfeld via The Atlantic on October 9, 2018
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Truth and Truthiness

Americans have been arguing over the role and rules of journalism since the very beginning.
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Conservatives’ Self-Delusion on Race

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.
by Joshua Tait via Made by History on October 5, 2018

Breaking News

Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
by Michael Massing via The Nation on September 27, 2018

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.
by Sherilynn A. Ifill via Literary Hub on September 26, 2018
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Anonymous Criticism Helped Make America Great

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made by History on September 8, 2018

“It Was Us Against Those Guys”: The Women Who Transformed Rolling Stone in the Mid-70s

How one 28-year-old feminist bluffed her way into running a copy department and made rock journalism a legitimate endeavor.
by Jessica Hopper via Vanity Fair on August 28, 2018

A Conservative Activist’s Quest to Preserve all Network News Broadcasts

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on July 26, 2018

When Did People Start Calling Things “Racially Charged”?

About 50 years ago.
by Daniel Engber via Slate on May 30, 2018

Richard Nixon Probably Would Not Have Been Saved by Fox News

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.
by Matt Welch via Reason on May 22, 2018

Montgomery's Shame and Sins of the Past

The Montgomery Advertiser recognizes its own place in the history of racial violence in its own community.
via The Montgomery Advertiser on April 26, 2018

Trump Lied to Me About His Wealth to Get Onto the Forbes 400

Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.
by Jonathan Greenberg via Washington Post on April 20, 2018

Lonesome on the Lower East Side

The story of the Bintel Brief, an early twentieth-century advice column for Jewish immigrants.
by Jessica Weisberg via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 4, 2018

What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From the Civil-Rights Movement

The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on March 23, 2018

How a Group of Journalists Turned Hip-Hop Into a Literary Movement

Looking back at the golden era of rap writing.
by Dean Van Nguyen via Pitchfork on March 12, 2018

A “Malicious Fabrication” by a “Mendacious Scribbler for the ‘New York Times’”

The Times, as a “venomous Abolition Journal” could not be trusted to provide the truth for a white, slave-owning southerner.
by Mandy Cooper, Kate Collins via The Devil's Tale on March 12, 2018

The Media and the Ku Klux Klan: A Debate That Began in the 1920s

The author of "Ku Klux Kulture" breaks down the ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship between the Klan and the media.
by Lois Beckett, Jesse Brenneman via The Guardian on March 5, 2018
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The Internet Isn't Forever

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.
by Maria Bustillos via Columbia Journalism Review on February 20, 2018

The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR

The Olympics have long enabled global superpowers to enact their political and ideological conflicts in sport.
by Erin Redihan via Process: A Blog for American History on February 8, 2018

The Untold Story of the Pentagon Papers Co-Conspirators

A historian reveals the crucial role that he played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.
by Eric Litchblau via The New Yorker on January 29, 2018

Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
by Danny Lyon via New York Review of Books on January 10, 2018

Simeon Booker, Intrepid Chronicler of Civil Rights Struggle for Jet and Ebony, Dies at 99

He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.
by Emily Langer via Washington Post on December 10, 2017

The New York Times and the Movement for Integrated Education in New York City

When covering the struggle against school segregation in its own backyard, the paper of record came up short.
by Ethan Scott Barnett via The Metropole on November 29, 2017

The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff

Vendors hawked the swill as “Pure Country Milk.”
by Tyler Moss via Atlas Obscura on November 27, 2017
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Why Trump’s Assault on NBC and “Fake News” Threatens Freedom of the Press

Restricting the press backfires politically.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made by History on October 12, 2017

Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of Playboy

Perhaps the only true generalization to make about Hefner is that he is given too much credit for his role in American history.
by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on September 29, 2017

How Vietnam Dramatically Changed Our Views on Honor and War

The military’s focus on individual service members in the late years of Vietnam has created a permanent legacy
by Richard Lachmann via The Conversation on September 13, 2017

The Story Behind the First-Ever Fact-Checkers

Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet.
by Merrill Fabry via Made By History on August 24, 2017
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