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Native editors are fighting back.

We want to acknowledge — and learn from — our history.

A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie.

When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of communities. There was no sense of nation or unity.

Who made sure Henry David Thoreau's works came out after his death? His sister.

Lovejoy, who ran a weekly paper called the Observer, was repeatedly targeted by mobs over his persistent writings against slavery.

Tracing the evolution and challenges of fact-checking in journalism.

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.

Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet.

George Washington scales new heights.

Quite the contrary. They used rhetoric to build a partisan community, and realized that parties needed to create and market identities, not simply agendas.

Eight ways to understand the literary-political impact of William F. Buckley Jr.

Margaret Fuller was a polymathic intellect and writer, simultaneously ahead of her time and deeply enmeshed in the social and political fabric of her era.

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

The inventor, philosopher, and elder statesman of the American Revolution never gave up on his first love — publishing.

On Irving Howe and the New Left.

An oral history of the tabloid race to cover the serial killer.

How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction.

From loading up the Wayback Machine to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing what they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.

On the life and times of Jason Epstein, cofounder of “The New York Review of Books.”

An interview with Taylor Brown, author of the novel "Rednecks."

Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism.

A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.

On the early origins of a very American kind of writing.

In the poetry of Jones Very, whom his contemporaries considered “eccentric” and “mad," the self is detached from everything by an intoxicated egoism.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The 1898 Wilmington massacre overthrew the elected government in the majority-Black city, killed many Black residents and torched a Black-run newspaper.

"Ebony" strives to become a one-stop shop.