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Does Journalism Have a Future?

In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on January 22, 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

What War of the Worlds Did

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.
by Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey via Aeon on November 26, 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

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

World War I Relived Day by Day

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.
by Patrick Chovanec via New York Review of Books on November 8, 2018
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The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on September 28, 2018

Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts Its Lynching Legacy

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.
by Jonathan M. Pitts via Baltimore Sun on September 25, 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

The Lost World of Weegee

Depression-era Americans viewed urban life in America through the lens of Weegee’s camera.
by Terry Teachout via Commentary on August 1, 2018

Justice Among the Jell-O Recipes: The Feminist History of Food Journalism

The food pages of newspapers were probably some of the first feminist writing many women read.
by Suzanne Cope via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 9, 2018

'What Soldiers Are for': Jersey Boys Wait for War

Essays published in a high school paper reflect the boys' efforts to prepare themselves for fighting in the Civil War.
by James Marten via Muster on June 19, 2018

How Everything On The Internet Became Clickbait

The “Laurel or Yanny?” phenomenon was the logical endpoint of 300 years of American media.
by Kevin Munger via The Outline on May 27, 2018
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Why the “Golden Age” of Newspapers Was the Exception, Not the Rule

"American journalism is younger than American baseball."
by John Maxwell Hamilton, Heidi Tworek via Nieman Lab on May 2, 2018

The Attention Economy of the American Revolution

How Twitter bots help us understand the founding era.
by Jordan E. Taylor via The Junto on April 30, 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

White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on April 17, 2018

The 19th-Century Election That Predicted the Mueller Mess

After Democrats lost in 1876, they set about investigating the new Republican president — only for everything to backfire.
by Fred Lucas via The American Conservative on March 20, 2018

Where to Score: Classified Ads from Haight-Ashbury

From 1966-1969, the underground newspaper 'San Francisco Oracle' became exceedingly popular among counterculture communities.
by Jason Fulford, Jordan Stein via The Paris Review on March 14, 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

The Quiet Genius of Margalit Fox’s Obituaries

For years, she’s injected subtle, deft works of cultural history into the New York Times.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 1, 2018
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How ‘the Kingfish’ Turned Corporations into People

Seventy-five years before Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that newspapers were entitled to First Amendment protections.
by Adam Winkler via New York Review of Books on February 28, 2018

How One Amateur Historian Brought Us the Stories of African-Americans Who Knew Abraham Lincoln

Once John E. Washington started to dig, he found an incredible wealth of untapped knowledge about the 16th president.
by Kate Masur via Smithsonian on February 20, 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

A Century Ago, Progressives Were the Ones Shouting 'Fake News'

The term "fake news" dates back to the end of the 19th century.
by Matthew F. Jordan via The Conversation on February 1, 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

William Randolph Hearst for President

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 22, 2018

Masher Menace: When American Women First Confronted Their Sexual Harassers

The #MeToo movement is not the first time women have publicly stood up to sexual harassment.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 14, 2017
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