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Generations of Village Voice Writers Reflect on the End of Print
The end of an era.
by
Luke O'Neil
via
Esquire
on
August 23, 2017
'Atomic Bill' and the Birth of the Bomb
Reconsidering the journalistic ethics of a New York Times reporter who chronicled the Manhattan Project from the inside.
by
Mark Wolverton
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UnDark
on
August 9, 2017
What the "Crack Baby" Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic
Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.
by
Vann R. Newkirk II
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The Atlantic
on
July 16, 2017
Greg Gianforte Is Lucky. Reporters Once Carried Daggers To Deal With Unruly Politicians.
There is a long history of congressmen behaving badly.
by
Michael S. Rosenwald
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Retropolis
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May 25, 2017
Exhibit
Truth and Truthiness
Americans have been arguing over the role and rules of journalism since the very beginning.
How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism
The government's suppression of press freedom was a major component of its attempts to build support for the war effort
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Christopher B. Daly
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The Conversation
on
April 27, 2017
When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again
If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.
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Sam Tanenhaus
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Esquire
on
April 5, 2017
Roller Skating Socials and a Black Rosie the Riveter
Uncovering black newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries can open up new possibilities for teaching African American history.
by
Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
March 8, 2016
The Struggle in Black and White: Activist Photographers Who Fought for Civil Rights
None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
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Collectors Weekly
on
October 7, 2014
Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World
The American journalist propelled into the limelight when she went head-to-head with Nellie Bly on a race around the world.
by
Matthew Goodman
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The Public Domain Review
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October 6, 2013
One of America's Best
Ambrose Bierce deviated from the refined eeriness of English-style ghost stories for his haunting descriptions of fateful coincidence and horrific revelation.
by
Michael Dirda
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New York Review of Books
on
May 10, 2012
The Spread
Jill Lepore on disease outbreaks of pandemic proportions, media scares, and the parrot-fever panic of 1930.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
May 25, 2009
partner
The Myth of the Media's Role in Watergate
Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.
by
Mark Feldstein
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HNN
on
August 30, 2004
Henry A. Crabb, Filibuster, and the San Diego Herald
A Californian politician's disastrous expedition to seize Mexican land, and how newspapers spun the story.
by
Diana Lindsay
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San Diego History Center
on
January 1, 1973
Cross-Channel Trip
A 1944 dispatch from Normandy.
by
A. J. Liebling
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The New Yorker
on
June 23, 1944
Tulsa, 1921
On the 100th anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.
by
Walter Francis White
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Russell Cobb
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The Nation
on
June 15, 1921
To Preserve Their Work — and Drafts of History — Journalists Take Archiving Into Their Own Hands
From loading up the Wayback Machine to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing what they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.
by
Hanaa' Tameez
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Nieman Lab
on
July 31, 2024
Philanthropy’s Power Brokers
An in-depth reckoning with the Gates Foundation as a discrete actor is long overdue.
by
John Miles Branch
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Public Books
on
July 17, 2024
Mortality Wars
Estimating life and death in Iraq and Gaza.
by
Shaan Sachdev
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The Drift
on
July 8, 2024
How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats
Bill Trueheart's battles with friend and fellow Foreign Service officer Fritz Nolting illustrate the American tragedy in Southeast Asia.
by
Timothy Noah
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Washington Monthly
on
June 24, 2024
The Lost Abortion Plot
Power and choice in the 1930s novel.
by
Julia Cooke
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The Point
on
June 11, 2024
In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks
On the porous, ever-shifting boundaries between science and speculation.
by
Ed Simon
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Literary Hub
on
June 10, 2024
partner
We Must Remember Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday'
Black citizens fought for justice and were met with violence. They persevered.
by
John M. Giggie
via
Made by History
on
June 7, 2024
partner
A Kind of Historical Faith
On the history of literature masquerading as primary source.
by
Emma Garman
via
HNN
on
May 21, 2024
Our Local Monster
Whose knowledge matters in a changing region?
by
Kathryn Carpenter
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Contingent
on
May 19, 2024
The City in Its Grip: On Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write”
Romano’s book is a vital, comprehensive piece of media scholarship about one of the most influential outlets of the last century. It’s also fun as hell to read.
by
T. M. Brown
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
March 15, 2024
“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America
On the Irish writer’s grand tour of the Gilded Age United States.
by
Rob Marland
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Literary Hub
on
March 11, 2024
Evelyn Trent Was One of America’s Great Revolutionaries
Best remembered as the partner of Indian revolutionary M. N. Roy, Evelyn Trent was an anti-colonial feminist who helped initiate India’s communist movement.
by
Jesse Olsavsky
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Jacobin
on
March 9, 2024
How Israel Quietly Crushed Early American Jewish Dissent on Palestine
An explosive new book delves into American Jewish McCarthyism from the 1950s through late 1970s.
by
Debbie Nathan
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The Intercept
on
March 3, 2024
Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Hands of the Red Scared
Again and again, a fervant British anticommunist's filmstrip of the novel shows images of women in states of distress.
by
Georgina Blackburn
via
Commonplace
on
February 6, 2024
Prairie Swooner
The hardscrabble origins and unique vision of novelist Willa Cather.
by
Eric Banks
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Bookforum
on
February 6, 2024
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