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The manner in which the debate unfolded is a reminder of the ways slavery affected everything it touched.

What has been gained and lost from overlooking histories about the wild heterogeneity of networks that existed for well over a century?

Roger Mudd proved in 1964 that media attention can help overcome Senate obstruction.

How English and Esperanto offer competing visions of a universal language.

A serialized biography of Jane Grant (1892-1972), first woman reporter at The New York Times and co-founder of The New Yorker.

The predigital dream of the audiobook.

Before People was the juggernaut of the celebrity media, it was a magazine “about people.”

Whether you like Rachel Maddow, Stephen Colbert, Joe Rogan, or Sean Hannity, you're engaging the media world created by the late radio host.

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.

A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's problems are new.

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.

A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.

Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.

Absent social media, the artists of the past shaped public knowledge of historical events through illustrations.

From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.

The definitive story of Wikipedia on its 20th anniversary.

It forced a conversation about the dangers of misinformation, one we need to have again today.

What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.

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.

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.

Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.

The penny press of the nineteenth century was a revolution in newspapers—and is a salutary reminder of lost ties between reporters and readers.

A dispatch from Wounded Knee that layers the realities of poverty, climate change, and resilience on the history of colonization, settlement, and genocide.

The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.

How a simple message came to be used nearly word-for-word in elections large and small for more than 200 years.

Explaining Joe Biden’s fondness for quoting Irish poets.

Tracing the twisting path of a resistance slogan, from the Nazis to the hippies to Trump.

How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.