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On the rise and fall of the quintessential ’90s online service provider—and a warning about today’s social-media giants.

An interactive scholarly work that uncovers the history of the Bible in the 19th- and early 20th-century United States.

The 11-foot-tall elephant reshaped our language, which has proved surprisingly apt.

For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America.

Fuel for the revolution came from a source familiar today: distorted news reports used to drum up enthusiasm for overthrowing an illegitimate government.

At the turn of the century, Mexican American publications paid a price for challenging the local sheriff and elements of the Texas Rangers.

The use of ‘y'all’ has often been seen as vulgar, low-class and uncultured. That’s starting to change.

A new book exalts the heyday of music magazines, when electric prose reigned and egos collided.

Pseudonyms allowed Adams to audition ideas and venture out on limbs without fear of reprisal.

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

A new book offers a picture of an early Internet defined by community, experimentation, and lack of privacy. 

Newspaper announcements from 1859 reveal how some Richmond slaveholders organized to protect the institution of slavery.

Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

An exploration of the potential effects of regional accents on poetry and slant-rhyme.

One of the earliest uses of intertitles, in this fin-de-siècle accident picture we can observe cinema discovering new forms of communication.

Shows from "Mr. Belvedere" to "Grace Under Fire" fought ignorance and prejudice with more care and passion than many who had been elected to public office

The modern misunderstanding of the term "people of color" and the racial categories associated.

Examining enslaved mothers and antislavery literature on the eve of war.

For pioneering journalist Bessie Beatty, women’s suffrage and the plight of labor were linked inextricably.

How will they interpret the past?

Walter Lippmann’s seminal work identified a fundamental problem for modern democratic society that remains as pressing—and intractable—as ever.

The practice of seeing Florida’s people, culture and history in caricature form is deeply rooted in the state’s colonial past.

An alternative tradition in our politics has long helped convince Americans that tax enforcement is good.

Explore some new and old radio maps in our collection, and learn a bit about the history of radio communications.

A Black Power radical, a Navy veteran, and the story behind the most boring channel on television.

The history of race has animated a highly contentious, sometimes fractious debate among scholars.

How did the controversial term go from middle-school slang to verboten? The answer lies on the other side of the Atlantic.

Focusing on a virus’s origins encourages individualized shame while ignoring the broader societal factors that contribute to a disease’s transmission.

Another chance to examine the terms we use and why they matter.