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The Campus Underground Press

The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.
by Liza Featherstone via JSTOR Daily on January 6, 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
A group of White KC Star reporters sitting at desks with paper

The Truth in Black and White: An Apology From the Kansas City Star

Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.
by Mike Fannin via Kansas City Star on December 20, 2020
A newsboy holding a bag of papers.

Popular Journalism’s Day in ‘The Sun’

The penny press of the nineteenth century was a revolution in newspapers—and is a salutary reminder of lost ties between reporters and readers.
by Batya Ungar-Sargon via New York Review of Books on December 15, 2020
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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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Superpredator

The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.
by Carroll Bogert, Lynnell Hancock via The Marshall Project on November 20, 2020
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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, W. Joseph Campbell via Slate on November 5, 2020
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President Trump’s False Claims About Election Fraud Are Dangerous

Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the vote has a familiar ring. It evokes an egregious example of election fraud in the 1890s.
by Sid Bedingfield via Made by History on November 5, 2020
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Good TV Demands Results on Election Night, but That’s Bad for Democracy

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Made by History on November 3, 2020
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Trump’s Illness and the History of Presidential Health

Are White House doctors keeping the public adequately informed about President Trump’s battle with COVID-19?
by Lawrence Altman, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on October 6, 2020
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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
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We Had Witnessed an Exhibition

A new book about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping focuses on the role played by the media.
by Chris Yogerst via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 24, 2020
Bill of Mortality from the plague, and New York Times list of Covid deaths.

When 194,000 Deaths Doesn’t Sound Like So Many

From plague times to the coronavirus, the history of our flawed ability to process mass casualty events.
by Rebecca Onion, Jacqueline Wernimont via Slate on September 13, 2020
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The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2020

QAnon Didn't Just Spring Forth From the Void

Calling QAnon a "cult" or "religion" hides how its practices are born of deeply American social and political traditions.
by Adam Willems, Megan Goodwin via Religion Dispatches on September 10, 2020
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True Stories About the Great Fire

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.
by Dan Adler, Anthony Breznican, Kenzie Bryant, Michael Calderone, Arimeta Diop, Caleb Ecarma, Joe Hagan, Chris Smith, Claire Landsbaum, Abigail Tracy, Erin Vanderhoof via The Hive on August 24, 2020
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Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.
by Jeanne Theoharis via Made by History on August 11, 2020

How to Make a Deadly Pandemic in Indian Country

From the 1918 Spanish flu to Covid-19, broken treaties have been the foundation of health crises among Native people.
by Nick Martin via The New Republic on July 22, 2020
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Trump’s Campaign Against Fauci Ignores the Proven Path for Defeating Pandemics

When medicine and journalism defeated cholera.
by David T. Z. Mindich via Made by History on July 22, 2020
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Of Plagues and Papers: COVID-19, the Media, and the Construction of American Disease History

The different ways news media approaches pandemic reporting.
by Abigail Shelton via Clio and the Contemporary on May 1, 2020
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The Founders Never Intended the U.S. Postal Service to be Managed Like a Business

The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.
by Richard R. John via Made by History on April 27, 2020
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During Epidemics, Media (And Now Social Media) Have Always Helped People to Connect

In a devastating 1793 epidemic people transformed their newspaper into something like today’s social media.
by David Paul Nord via Made by History on April 27, 2020

Typhoid Mary Was a Maligned Immigrant Who Got a Bum Rap

Now, she's become hashtag shorthand for people who defy social distancing orders.
by Katherine A. Foss via The Conversation on April 24, 2020

Jubilee Jim Fisk and the Great Civil War Score

In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.
by David K. Thomson via Boston Globe Magazine on April 22, 2020

Long-Forgotten Cables Reveal What TIME's Correspondent Saw at the Liberation of Dachau

Two copies of the first-person account were tucked away, largely untouched until after his death. Now, his family is sharing his story.
by Olivia B. Waxman via Made By History on April 21, 2020

Don’t Look For Patient Zeros

Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on April 8, 2020

In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics

A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu.
by Soraya Nadia McDonald via Andscape on April 1, 2020

How America’s Newspapers Covered Up a Pandemic

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.
by Walter Shapiro via The New Republic on March 31, 2020
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What Winning New Hampshire — and its Media Frenzy — Could Mean for Bernie Sanders

The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Made by History on February 12, 2020
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Why the Iowa Caucuses May Elevate an Underdog

History shows that this blockbuster event is merely a test of organizational strength in one small state.
by Amber Roessner via Made by History on February 3, 2020

The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.
by Joseph M. Adelman via The Junto on January 23, 2020
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