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How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV
The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.
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Emily Nussbaum
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The New Yorker
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June 15, 2024
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How Country Music Became Patriotic
Country music boosters rebranded the genre and tied it to America's military mission as a way to build popularity.
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Joseph M. Thompson
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Made by History
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June 6, 2024
No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968
The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.
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Walter Shapiro
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The New Republic
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May 9, 2024
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How the NBA Learned to Embrace Activism
A changing NBA fan base drove the league toward an embrace of Black culture, and social justice politics.
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Adam Criblez
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Made by History
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April 19, 2024
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The Biden-Trump Rematch May Mark the End of an Era
Over the course of U.S. history, presidential rematches have signaled momentous political upheavals.
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Bruce J. Schulman
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Made by History
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April 4, 2024
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Lessons from the 1976 Republican Convention: Why Ronald Reagan Lost the Nomination
In 1976, Ronald Reagan found owning the soul of a party isn’t the same as taking home its nomination.
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Retro Report
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March 15, 2024
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Lessons From the 1964 Republican Convention: Declaring War on the Establishment
Donald Trump’s candidacy wasn’t the first time the Republican Party was split by an outsider declaring war on the establishment elite.
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Retro Report
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March 13, 2024
The Auteur of Fatherhood: How Steven Spielberg Recast American Masculinity
Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.
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Phillip Maciak
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The Yale Review
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March 4, 2024
Edward R. Murrow Wasn’t the First Journalist to Question Joseph McCarthy’s Communist Witch Hunts
As the fear of communist subversion spread throughout America, McCarthy launched hearings that were based on scant evidence and overblown charges.
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W. Joseph Campbell
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The Conversation
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March 1, 2024
The Ruthless Rise and Fall of Paramount Pictures During Hollywood’s Golden Age
The venerable movie studio once defined the industry's zeal for consolidation, pioneering vertical integration and serving as the model for its major rivals.
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Thomas Doherty
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The Hollywood Reporter
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February 29, 2024
Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab
How a 1960s interspecies communication experiment went haywire.
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Benjamin Breen
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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February 27, 2024
Heritage 2000
Some years wield such power that you must comply with them.
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Dan Piepenbring
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n+1
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January 26, 2024
Freedom Furniture
How did Americans come to love “mid-century modern”?
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Marianela D’Aprile
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The Nation
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January 23, 2024
Before Taylor and Travis, There Was Helen and John
She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.
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Scott D. Peterson
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Zócalo Public Square
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January 11, 2024
What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia
Retro was not the antithesis to the sub- and countercultural experiments of the 1960s, it grew directly out of them.
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Tobias Becker
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Literary Hub
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December 13, 2023
Endless Culture Wars
On Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”
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Chris Yogerst
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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December 1, 2023
The Strange Death of Private Life
In the early 1970s, the idea that private life meant a right to be left alone – an idea forged over centuries – began to disappear. We should mourn its absence.
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Tiffany Jenkins
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Engelsberg Ideas
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November 21, 2023
The Misunderstood History of American Wrestling
A recent biography of Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story is as banal as it is brutal.
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Nadine Smith
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The Nation
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November 10, 2023
Rocky Horror Has Surprising Roots in Victorian Seances
‘Time Warp’ all the way back to the 1800s.
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Victoria Linchong
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Atlas Obscura
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October 11, 2023
The Pirate Preservationists
When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law.
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Jesse Walker
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Reason
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September 10, 2023
Jammin’ in the Panoram
During World War II, proto–music videos called “soundies” blared pop patriotism from visual jukeboxes across American bars.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
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September 2, 2023
Possibilities for Propaganda
The founding and funding of conservative media on college campuses in the 1960s.
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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August 30, 2023
An Oral History of the March on Washington, 60 Years After MLK’s Dream
The Post interviewed March on Washington participants and voices from younger generations to tell the story of Aug. 28, 1963 and what it means now.
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Clarence Williams
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Retropolis
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August 25, 2023
On the Men Who Lent Their Bodies (and Voices) to the Earliest Iterations of Superman
A wrestler, a Sunday school teacher, and a mystery man walk into a studio.
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Paul Morton
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Literary Hub
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August 10, 2023
Hot Pursuit: The Brief Rise of 1970s Hixploitation Cinema
On the drive-in movie culture that captured a yearning for fast cars on dusty roads.
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Scott Von Doviak
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CrimeReads
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July 11, 2023
The Overlooked Origins of the War on Bud Light and Other “Woke” Companies
Starbucks and Anheuser-Busch are the latest corporate targets of tactics honed by segregationists post–Brown v. Board.
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Lawrence B. Glickman
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Slate
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July 5, 2023
How Pat Robertson Shepherded His Flock Into Politics
Farewell to the senator's son who pioneered a TV genre, helped create the Christian right, ran for president, and earned the grudging respect of Abbie Hoffman.
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Jesse Walker
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Reason
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June 9, 2023
Smile, You're on Jury Duty!
First came 'Candid Camera.' Then 'The Truman Show.' Now, a new swath of TV speaks to 21st-century voyeurism.
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Jackie Mansky
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Zócalo Public Square
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April 28, 2023
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Should Children’s Entertainment Be Tweaked to Reflect Today’s Norms?
Children’s entertainment always embodies local values.
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Helle Strandgaard Jensen
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Made by History
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April 11, 2023
The Night James Brown Saved Boston
The city might have gone up in flames after MLK's assassination, if not for the quick actions of a DJ, a city councilor, and The Hardest Working Man In Show Business.
by
Dart Adams
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Medium
on
April 5, 2023
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