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How Cable News Upended American Politics
Cable TV's backers sold the technology as a boon to democracy, but embraced a business model that chased niche audiences.
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Kathryn Cramer Brownell
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Made by History
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September 27, 2023
Oh, We Knew Agnew
On Spiro Agnew's lasting legacy.
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Jerald Podair
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Zach Messitte
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Charles J. Holden
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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August 27, 2023
The Battlefields of Cable
How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV.
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Jesse Walker
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Reason
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August 15, 2023
Keeping Speech Robust and Free
Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.
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Jeffrey Toobin
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New York Review of Books
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July 7, 2023
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Truth and Truthiness
Americans have been arguing over the role and rules of journalism since the very beginning.
The Journalist Who Photographed the Burning Monk
The man behind an iconic Vietnam War image captured ‘the ugliest events of our time.'
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Ray E. Boomhower
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Zócalo Public Square
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June 8, 2023
A Better Journalism?
‘Time’ magazine and the unraveling of the American consensus.
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Paul Baumann
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Commonweal
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May 28, 2023
The Dark Side of Defamation Law
A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?
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Jeannie Suk Gersen
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The New Yorker
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May 11, 2023
Traffic Jam
Ben Smith’s book on the history of the viral internet doesn’t truly reckon with the costs of traffic worship.
by
Leah Finnegan
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The Baffler
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May 2, 2023
Life Goes to Vietnam
Debunking claims that news media fueled public disillusionment and cost the US victory.
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Gregory A. Daddis
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Process: A Blog for American History
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March 29, 2023
1910s Cannabis Discourse and Prohibition
Does marijuana prohibition have racist origins? Where did ideas of “reefer madness” come from? This project looks to the historical record for answers.
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Isaac Campos
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The Drug Page
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March 7, 2023
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Fox News’s Handling of Election Lies Was Extreme but Far From Unusual
News organizations air lies from political figures more often than you’d think, but for very different reasons than Fox News.
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Kathryn J. McGarr
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Made by History
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March 7, 2023
A Return to the Wounded Knee Occupation, 50 Years Later
The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation.
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Dennis Zotigh
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Smithsonian
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February 27, 2023
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After Attica, the McKay Report in the Prison Press
How was the famous prisoner uprising and its aftermath depicted in the prison press? The American Prison Newspapers collection on JSTOR has answers.
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James Anderson
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JSTOR Daily
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January 19, 2023
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part 1)
The following piece presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic over the last year.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton
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Artie Vierkant
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The New Inquiry
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December 21, 2022
How JFK Sacrificed Adlai Stevenson and the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The standoff 60 years ago has newfound relevance for handling the Ukraine crisis today.
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Peter Kornbluh
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Foreign Policy
on
October 16, 2022
“Weather Bad and Whales Un-Cooperative”
Looking back at the misadventures of mid-century whale cardiology expeditions.
by
Anna Guasco
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Nursing Clio
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October 13, 2022
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We Learned of The Queen’s Death Instantly. That Wasn’t The Case in 1760.
Back when monarchs had much more power—and news was far from instantaneous—it had major implications in the American colonies.
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Helena Yoo Roth
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Made by History
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September 19, 2022
How Stokely Carmichael Helped Inspire the Creation of C-SPAN
A Black Power radical, a Navy veteran, and the story behind the most boring channel on television.
by
Eamon Whalen
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Mother Jones
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August 24, 2022
Ask the ‘Coupologists’: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?
Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.
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Joshua Zeitz
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Scott Althaus
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Matt Cleary
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Ryan McMaken
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Politico Magazine
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August 19, 2022
How Capitalism—Not a Few Bad Actors—Destroyed the Internet
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.
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Matthew Crain
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Boston Review
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August 3, 2022
TV's Rural Craze & The Civil Rights Movement
At the same time that MLK was using TV to brand Southern sheriffs as obstacles to progress, a Southern sheriff was one of the medium's most beloved characters.
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Bijan Bayne
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RogerEbert.com
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June 21, 2022
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Primetime Watergate Hearings Helped Make PBS a National Network
Mired in a funding crisis — and the target of politicians — the hearings transformed public broadcasting.
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Amanda Reichenbach Lehman
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Made by History
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June 16, 2022
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How Black Radio Changed the Dial
Black-appeal stations were instrumental in propelling R&B into the mainstream while broadcasting news of the ever-growing civil rights movement.
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Ashawnta Jackson
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Bala James Baptiste
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Tanya Teglo
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Richard S. Kahlenberg
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JSTOR Daily
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May 30, 2022
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The Living Newspaper Speaks
Scripted from front-page news, the Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspaper plays were part entertainment, part protest, and entirely educational.
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Betsy Golden Kellem
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JSTOR Daily
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May 25, 2022
When History Is Lost in the Ether
Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.
by
Christian Schneider
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The Dispatch
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April 6, 2022
Stranger Dangers: The Right's History of Turning Child Abuse Into a Political Weapon
Josh Hawley’s attacks on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are part of a long, sad tradition.
by
Paul M. Renfro
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Ali Breland
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Mother Jones
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March 28, 2022
How American Culture Ate the World
A new book explains why Americans know so little about other countries.
by
Dexter Fergie
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The New Republic
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March 24, 2022
Eleven Black Women: Why Did They Die?
Barbara Smith, a key contributor to contemporary Black feminist thought, formed the Combahee River Collective to address Black women's interlocking oppressions.
by
Huda Hassan
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Barbara Smith
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Mother, Loosen My Tongue
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March 8, 2022
Challenging Exceptionalism
The 1876 presidential election, Potter Committee, and European perceptions.
by
Niels Eichhorn
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Muster
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February 22, 2022
The US Devastated the Marshall Islands — And Is Now Refusing to Aid the Marshallese People
The 1954 US nuclear tests absolutely devastated the small island nation, but the US has steadfastly refused to make real amends for it.
by
Chuck McKeever
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Jacobin
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February 16, 2022
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