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‘Impeachment Polka’: How a Composer in 1868 Sought to Capitalize on America’s Political Obsession

A pianist performs a piece of music forgotten for 150 years.

by Philip Bump via Washington Post on January 16, 2020

News correspondent inside Berlin Wall tunnel.

The Battle Between NBC and CBS to Be the First to Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape

Declassified government documents show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.

by Mike Conway via The Conversation on November 8, 2019

Trump through a television camera.

How TV Paved America’s Road to Trump

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.

by Sean Illing, James Poniewozik via Vox on November 7, 2019

Rush Limbaugh.

From Entertainment to Outrage: On the Rise of Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio

How the alienated margins arrived at the center of American politics.

by Brian Rosenwald via Literary Hub on November 5, 2019

Truth and Truthiness

Americans have been arguing over the role and rules of journalism since the very beginning.

Juvenile in handcuffs

Combating the Myth of the Superpredator

In the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of a new breed of “superpredators.”

via Retro Report on October 30, 2019

Cup of McDonald's coffee

The Misunderstood McDonald's Hot Coffee Lawsuit

Stella Liebeck was vilified when she was awarded millions after spilling McDonald's coffee in her lap. But the facts told another story.

via Retro Report on October 28, 2019

How Fear of the Measles Vaccine Took Hold

We’re still dealing with the repercussions of a discredited 1998 study that sowed fear and skepticism about vaccines.

via Retro Report on October 15, 2019

How Media was Social in the 1790s

What would the French Revolution have looked like on Twitter?

by Jordan E. Taylor via The Panorama on September 3, 2019

‘An Essential Force in American History,’ Chicago Defender to Stop Print Publication

The storied African American newspaper will switch to a digital-only platform starting July 11.

by Mitchell Armentrout via Chicago Sun-Times on July 5, 2019

How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.

by Elizabeth Hinton via The Atlantic on June 2, 2019

Reading the Black Hills Pioneer, Deadwood’s Newspaper

Here’s how the Black Hills Pioneer reported on major events in the HBO series.

by Matthew Dessem via Slate on June 2, 2019

Inside San Francisco’s Plague-Ravaged Chinatown

A city on the edge.

by Julia Flynn Siler via Literary Hub on May 15, 2019

Maligned in Black and White

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

by Mark I. Pinsky via Poynter on May 8, 2019

Paul Revere's ride

The Media Revolution that Guided Paul Revere’s Ride

An anti-imperialist network made his warning possible.

by Joseph M. Adelman via Made by History on April 19, 2019

Illustration of video of Columbine shooters

20 Years Later, Columbine Is The Spectacle The Shooters Wanted

Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”

by Andy Warner via The Nib on April 17, 2019

‘It’s a Racial Thing, Don’t Kid Yourself’: An Oral History of Chicago’s 1983 Mayoral Race

How Harold Washington became Chicago’s first black mayor.

by Jordan Heller via Intelligencer on April 2, 2019

Ari Fleischer Lied, and People Died

The former Bush mouthpiece had more to do personally with the Iraq WMD catastrophe than he wants us to believe.

by Scott Ritter via The American Conservative on March 22, 2019

Why Has It Taken Us So Long to See Trump’s Weakness?

There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.

by Corey Robin via Intelligencer on February 20, 2019

Ross Perot speaks at a podium.

Why Billionaires With Big Egos Now Dream of Being President

The trends that brought us Howard Schultz (and Donald Trump) started in the 1970s.

by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer via Washington Post on January 29, 2019

Where Does Truth Fit into Democracy?

In modern democracies, who gets to determine what counts as truth—an elite of experts or the people as a whole?

by David A. Bell via The Nation on January 24, 2019

A Brief History of the Past 100 Years, as Told Through the New York Times Archives

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

by Ilia Blinderman, Jan Diehm via The Pudding on December 29, 2018

The World Through the Eyes of the US

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.

by Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on December 15, 2018

Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

by Gautham Rao via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 25, 2018

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

Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

An excerpt from Timothy Lombardo's "Blue Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics."

by Timothy Lombardo via Tropics of Meta on October 16, 2018

The Man Who Broke Politics

Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in it.

by McKay Coppins via The Atlantic on October 15, 2018

Breaking News

Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.

by Michael Massing via The Nation on September 27, 2018

Raising Cane

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 15, 2018

Artistic photo for black history

The Trouble With Uplift

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

by Adolph Reed Jr. via The Baffler on September 4, 2018

President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.

Trump is Not the First GOP President to Try to Make the Media ‘Fair’

Conservatives love rules about political balance — when they’re in charge.

by Nicole Hemmer via Washington Post on August 29, 2018

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