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The Loser King

Failing upward with Oliver North.
by Matt Hanson via The Baffler on March 10, 2020
William F. Buckley, Jr. being interviewed on What’s Happening Mr. Silver.
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On the Right: NET and Modern Conservatism

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.
by Allison Perlman via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 22, 2020

Rambo Politics from Reagan to Trump

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.
by Bonnie Honig via Boston Review on January 6, 2020
Host Jack Barry and two contestants on the game show "21."

Think Presidential Debates Are Dull? Thank 1950s TV Game Shows

The only debate arrangement that everyone could agree to 60 years ago remains in place today – the game show format.
by Michael J. Socolow via The Conversation on December 17, 2019
Richard Pryor

A Nigger Un-Reconstructed: The Legacy of Richard Pryor

Comedian Richard Pryor's performance of Blackness throughout his career.
by Mark Anthony Neal via NewBlackMan (in Exile) on December 1, 2019
News correspondent inside Berlin Wall tunnel.

The Battle Between NBC and CBS to Be the First to Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape

Declassified government documents show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.
by Mike Conway via The Conversation on November 8, 2019
Close-up of Spiro T. Agnew as he points his finger from podium.

He Was Trump Before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew Attacked the News Media 50 Years Ago

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on November 8, 2019
Big Bird on the set of 'Sesame Street'

The Unmistakable Black Roots of 'Sesame Street'

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on November 7, 2019

The Difference Between Nixon and Trump is Fox News

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.
by Nicole Hemmer via Vox on October 7, 2019
Sesame Street cast

Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’

How a black psychiatrist helped design a groundbreaking television show as a radical therapeutic tool for minority preschoolers.
by Anne Harrington via UnDark on May 17, 2019

‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s TV Show.

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.
by Holly Otterbein via Politico Magazine on May 3, 2019
Rod Serling at the typewriter, at his Westport, Connecticut, home in 1956.

An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to 'The Twilight Zone'

His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.
by Jackie Mansky via Smithsonian on April 1, 2019
Anthony Scaramucci
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The Revolving Door Between Reality TV and the Trump Administration

Why Anthony Scaramucci’s turn on “Celebrity Big Brother” shouldn’t come as a surprise.
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Made By History on January 15, 2019

The Real Roots of American Rage

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.
by Charles Duhigg via The Atlantic on December 15, 2018
Still from the Golden Girls.

Deconstructing HIV and AIDS on The Golden Girls

In 1990, one of America's most beloved sitcoms took on the HIV epidemic with humor and sensitivity.
by Claire Sewell via Nursing Clio on December 4, 2018

How Smooth Jazz Took Over the '90s

And why you should give smooth jazz a chance.
by Estelle Caswell via Vox on December 3, 2018

Mayberry Machiavelli

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’
by Tom Carson via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

How Does a Film Become Lost?

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.
by Andrew Egan via Tedium on October 11, 2018

The Greatest Upset in Quiz Show History

Agnes Scott vs. Princeton, GE College Bowl, 1966.
by Lynn Q. Yu via Slate on August 6, 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

We’re Never Going to Get Our “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?” Moment

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 26, 2018

The Healing Buzz of "Drunk History"

Sweet, filthy, and forgiving, it’s a corrective to the authoritative, we-know-better tone of most historical nonfiction.
by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 16, 2018

In the Trump Era, America Desperately Needs a Great Movie About Nuclear Apocalypse

If we want to avoid nuclear war, we'd better start imagining it again.
by Jon Schwarz via The Intercept on July 1, 2018

How the ‘Watergate Babies’ Broke American Politics

In an effort to open Congress, they institutionalized a confrontational style that permeates contemporary politics today.
by John A. Lawrence via Politico Magazine on May 26, 2018
Man reading a newspaper and smoking a cigarette in a mid-twentieth century kitchen.

Why the “Golden Age” of Newspapers Was the Exception, Not the Rule

"American journalism is younger than American baseball."
by John Maxwell Hamilton, Heidi Tworek via Nieman Lab on May 2, 2018

How Cosby's 'Pound Cake' Speech Helped Lead to His Downfall

His moralizing accelerated the cultural backlash against him and provided evidence that would be used against him at trial.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on April 26, 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
Will Lee as Mr. Hooper

Spotlighting Communism & Hollywood in the Papers of Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper

The actor who played the loveable grocer found his way to Sesame Street after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.
via American Heritage Center Blog on April 18, 2018

A Spoonful of Sitcom Synergy: 25 Years of the "Disney Episode"

Why don't TV families go to Disney World as much as they used to?
by Myles McNutt via The A.V. Club on April 17, 2018

Kneeling for Hollywood

How Hollywood portrays religious prayer.
by Melani McAlister via Modern American History on March 5, 2018
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