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The World Through the Eyes of the US

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
by Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on December 15, 2018

Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.
by Gautham Rao via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 25, 2018

The Racist Politics of the English Language

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on November 20, 2018
Four Ku Klux Klan members wearing robes and hoods.

The Ku Klux Klan and America’s First "Fake News" Crisis

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.
by Matt Ford via The New Republic on October 30, 2018
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Truth and Truthiness

Americans have been arguing over the role and rules of journalism since the very beginning.
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Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

How Rizzo's blue-collar populism helped him survive his tumultuous first term as mayor.
by Timothy Lombardo via Tropics of Meta on October 16, 2018

The Man Who Broke Politics

Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in it.
by McKay Coppins via The Atlantic on October 15, 2018

Breaking News

Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
by Michael Massing via The Nation on September 27, 2018

Raising Cane

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.
by Joanne B. Freeman via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 15, 2018
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The Trouble With Uplift

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.
by Adolph Reed Jr. via The Baffler on September 4, 2018
President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.

Trump is Not the First GOP President to Try to Make the Media ‘Fair’

Conservatives love rules about political balance — when they’re in charge.
by Nicole Hemmer via Washington Post on August 29, 2018
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Biosphere 2: A Faulty Mars Survival Test Gets a Second Act

In 1991, eight people sealed themselves inside a giant glass biosphere to practice space living. By the time they emerged, they had “suffocated, starved and went mad.”
via Retro Report on August 3, 2018
Photograph of murder victim by Weegee.

The Lost World of Weegee

Depression-era Americans viewed urban life in America through the lens of Weegee’s camera.
by Terry Teachout via Commentary on August 1, 2018

A Conservative Activist’s Quest to Preserve all Network News Broadcasts

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on July 26, 2018
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The Wildfire That Burned Yellowstone and set off a Media Firestorm

30 years ago, it was a huge fire in Yellowstone National Park that stoked media attention and political controversy.
via Retro Report on July 9, 2018

When Did People Start Calling Things “Racially Charged”?

About 50 years ago.
by Daniel Engber via Slate on May 30, 2018

How Everything On The Internet Became Clickbait

The “Laurel or Yanny?” phenomenon was the logical endpoint of 300 years of American media.
by Kevin Munger via The Outline on May 27, 2018

Richard Nixon Probably Would Not Have Been Saved by Fox News

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.
by Matt Welch via Reason on May 22, 2018
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Thank Sean Hannity for the Trump Presidency

The conservative media made this president, and the conservative media will keep him in office.
by Brian Rosenwald via Made By History on April 23, 2018

How the 1970s Shaped Trump's Vision

The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on April 8, 2018

When the Revolution Was Televised

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on April 1, 2018

The Media and the Ku Klux Klan: A Debate That Began in the 1920s

The author of "Ku Klux Kulture" breaks down the ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship between the Klan and the media.
by Lois Beckett, Jesse Brenneman via The Guardian on March 5, 2018
Guernica by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Virginia B. Spivey via Digital Public Library of America on February 28, 2018

A Century Ago, Progressives Were the Ones Shouting 'Fake News'

The term "fake news" dates back to the end of the 19th century.
by Matthew F. Jordan via The Conversation on February 1, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Martin Luther King Jr. Spent the Last Year of His Life Detested by the Liberal Establishment

King was roundly denounced for his stances against the Vietnam War and injustices north of the Mason-Dixon line.
by Zaid Jilani via The Intercept on January 15, 2018

What the Press and 'The Post' Missed

Leslie Gelb supervised the team that compiled the Pentagon Papers. He explains what Steven Spielberg's new film gets wrong.
by Brooke Gladstone, Leslie Gelb via WNYC on January 12, 2018
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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

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.
by Andrew Holter via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 13, 2017
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'Gavel-to-Gavel': The Watergate Scandal and Public Television

Experience the Watergate impeachment hearings and television broadcasts as so many did in 1973.
by Amanda Reichenbach via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 3, 2017
President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.
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When It Comes to Harassing the Media, Trump is No Nixon

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.
by Oscar Winberg via Made By History on October 16, 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
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