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Cover of "These Truths"

New Yorker Nation

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.
by Richard White via Reviews In American History on June 2, 2019
Drawing of a woman being blown away holding a kite made of books

Margaret Fuller on the Social Value of Intellectual Labor and Why Artists Ought to Be Paid

“The circulating medium… is abused like all good things, but without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil.”
by Maria Popova via The Marginalian on May 23, 2019

The Lucky Ones

I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.
by Adriana Gallardo via Guernica on February 19, 2019

The Migrant Caravan: Made in USA

Much of the migrant "crisis" is blowback from decades of official U.S. policy in Central America.
by Robert Saviano via New York Review of Books on February 14, 2019
Exhibit

Truth and Truthiness

Americans have been arguing over the role and rules of journalism since the very beginning.
Newspaper profile of the policeman who arrested President Grant.

The Police Officer Who Arrested a President

It was 1872 and the commander-in-chief kept riding his horse too fast through the streets of Washington.
by Michael S. Rosenwald via Retropolis on December 16, 2018
Children bringing home remains of a bed. Coal mining camp, Scotts Run, West Virginia. (1938)

James M. Cain and the West Virginia Mine Wars

Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars.
by Sean Carswell via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 25, 2018

Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts Its Lynching Legacy

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.
by Jonathan M. Pitts via Baltimore Sun on September 25, 2018

Welcome to New York

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.
by Brendan P. O'Malley via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 12, 2018
New York Times building.

The History of 'The New York Times' Stylebook

'The New York Times' was an early adopter of style guidelines.
by Merrill Perlman via Columbia Journalism Review on June 19, 2018
Funeral flower arrangement with a ribbon reading "R.I.P. Internet."
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Why Ajit Pai is Wrong About Net Neutrality

FCC regulations have long promoted innovation that benefits consumers, not stifled it.
by Michael J. Socolow via Made By History on December 14, 2017

Theodore Dreiser’s New York

Teddy Dreiser tries to make it.
by Mike Wallace via The Paris Review on October 26, 2017

Trump is the New _______

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.
by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 24, 2017
Karl Marx

How the American Civil War Shaped Marxism

Although Karl Marx never saw the U.S., he thought long and hard about how it fit into his theory, especially during the Civil War.
by Matthew Wills, Robert Weiner, Gerald Runkle via JSTOR Daily on October 24, 2017

‘Who Goes Nazi’ Now?

Dorothy Thompson's 1941 paranoid 'parlor game' just as (un) useful today.
by Scott Beauchamp via The American Conservative on October 12, 2017

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on October 12, 2017

The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll

The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.
by Nick Turse via The Intercept on September 28, 2017
Braille Playboy

For Years, There Was Playboy for Blind People. A Republican Congressman Tried to Kill It

The government shouldn’t subsidize porn, he argued.
by Jessica Lipsky via Timeline on September 21, 2017
Daniel Ellsberg.

From the Pentagon Papers to Trump: How the Government Gained the Upper Hand Against Leakers

We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.
by Margot Susca via The Conversation on June 15, 2017

Why Do They Hate Her?

Hillary Clinton is the most maligned presidential loser in history. What’s going on?
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 3, 2017
People on a rollercoaster

Are We Having Too Much Fun?

In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient.
by Megan Garber via The Atlantic on April 27, 2017

A Devastating Mississippi River Flood That Uprooted America's Faith in Progress

The 1927 disaster exposed a country divided by stereotypes, united by modernity.
by Susan Scott Parrish via Zócalo Public Square on April 14, 2017
Men running with their newspapers, one of which says "fake news"

Yellow Journalism: The "Fake News" of the 19th Century

Peddling lies goes back to antiquity, but during the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century it reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.
by Adam Green via The Public Domain Review on February 21, 2017
Cartoon drawing of Francis Pharcellus Church.

The Journalist Who Understood The True Meaning Of Christmas

“Yes, Virginia” is the most reprinted newspaper piece in American history, and this guy wrote it.
by Ilana Gordon via OMGFacts on December 16, 2016
Valium pills
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Mother's Little Helper

How feminists transformed Valium from a wonder drug to a symbol of medical sexism.
via BackStory on May 20, 2016
A painting of Boston harbor, where women in dresses stand on a hill, watching ships
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Invisible Cities, Continued

The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."
via BackStory on January 22, 2016
A photograph of Horace Greeley.

Antebellum Data Journalism: Or, How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln

An 1848 investigative news story that relied on heavy data analysis snared big fish, including two future presidents.
by Scott Klein via ProPublica on March 17, 2015
Go on Monopoly board

The Twisted History of Your Favorite Board Game

An interview with Mary Pilon about her new book, ‘The Monopolists,’ which uncovers the real story about how Monopoly became the game it is today.
by Mary Pilon, Jessica Gross via Longreads on March 1, 2015
Eleanor Kirk

How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888)

Eleanor Kirk's guide offered a way to break into the boys’ club of publishing.
by Paul Collins via The New Yorker on September 4, 2014
Photograph of Jack Kerouac looking into a shop window, by Allen Ginsberg.

Drive, Jack Kerouac Wrote

"On the Road" is a sad and somewhat self-consciously lyrical story about loneliness, insecurity, and failure. It’s also a story about guys who want to be with other guys.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on September 24, 2007

Who Was Marjory Stoneman Douglas?

A name, now famously associated with a mass school shooting, belonged to a strong advocate for the Everglades.
by Jeffry Klinkenberg via The Bitter Southerner on May 1, 1998
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