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Historian Adam Lee Cilli effectively illustrates the centrality of Black Pittsburgh within the larger Black Freedom Struggle.

Labeled a local eccentric, millionaire James Eads How used his inherited wealth to support vagrant communities.

"I idolized women like Marvel Cooke," Angela Davis tells Teen Vogue.

In 1970, an all-white state commission thought Mississippi was "not yet ready" to see a racially integration depicted on television. The backlash was swift.

Native editors are fighting back.

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination.

A chatbot billed as an educational tool falsely portrays historical figures, including dictators and Nazis, as apologetic for their crimes.

Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.

A feud between two nineteenth-century German-language newspapers showed that immigrant communities embraced a diversity of interests and beliefs.

We can’t blame Joe McCarthy for this one. (Though he was a fan.)

How was the famous prisoner uprising and its aftermath depicted in the prison press? The American Prison Newspapers collection on JSTOR has answers.

Looking back at half a century of truth-telling and rebelling.

Restoring the term “burnout” to its roots in landlord arson puts the dispossession of poor city dwellers at its center.

In the 1950's, Rep. Douglas Stringfellow was a promising young congressman with an incredible World War II story. Then the truth came out.

The following piece presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic over the last year.

Mr. Shakespeare's team oversaw ads and on-air events that reflected the rising power of television as a political tool.

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.