editors

Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

The winding story of how a trove of 8,000 of the poet’s family objects were saved.

Considering the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”

On the 50th anniversary of "The Jewish Catalog."

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

The Civil War general's reputation was shaped by partisan politics, editorial whims and his own personal failings.

What eight decades of "Goofus and Gallant" illustrate about society’s changing expectations of children.

As a student in Paris and a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, the future First Lady worked behind the lens to bring her own ideas into focus.

The author of ‘The Stranger’ toured the Americas in the years following World War II. He found prosperity and absurdity in plenty.

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

Nineteenth-century New York City was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia.

The story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.

How an Asian American literary pioneer fell into obscurity.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”

The platforms are new, but the form has been around for most of a century.

The White press helped destroy democracy in the South. Black journalists developed an activist tradition because they had to.

On the social and political function of political media.

In the 1940s, scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the free press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever.

The vexed history of "Night Life" in the New Yorker.

The newspaper standby still rivets our attention a century later.

A network of professional librarians seeks to destroy a beloved literary heroine and malign her creator.

The untold story of the double agent who attacked the paper from within.

How printers in the 1770s assembled the news for their papers, how they used the postal system, and how they may have approached Twitter.

Edgar Allan Poe knew that readers would add their visual image of the author to his work to create a personality that informed their reading.

They called her ACM, but never, ever, to her face.

"If the times have changed, Abbey’s ideas about freedom have in some ways never been more relevant."

An intellectual history.