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Public broadcasting wasn’t some grand plan that just happened. Josh Shepperd traces the setbacks, minor victories and hard work that had to take place...

Mark Dawidziak has a new book out, this one on Edgar Allan Poe. It takes its place on the bookshelf alongside other volumes Dawidziak has written. It’...

Doug Howard and David Bianculli produced an entire book about endings, specifically television finales. The book, “Television Finales—from ‘Howdy Dood...

In writing "The Influencer Industry," Emily Hund, a University of Pennsylvania researcher, had a challenge: to explore the "increasingl...

If you believe western civilization is the result of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times, historian Naoise (pr...

The bicycle has had anything but a smooth ride in the United States. As Robert Turpin tells it in “The First Taste of Freedom,” a history of how the b...

"A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gur...

Samir Husni has the distinction of being known as "Mr. Magazine," a title bestowed on him by a grateful student in 1986. Having made magazin...

When Bonnie Siegler found the movie film that her grandfather Jules Schulback, a successful Manhattan furrier and amateur filmmaker, had taken of Mari...

Sometimes it's hard knowing just how wild the Wild West was in this country. Cutting through the mythology that surround western heroes like Wyat...

Journalist Gloria Dickie, based in London where she serves as an environmental correspondent for Reuters, offers a superb study of the eight surviving...

Alexis McCrossen is a professor of history at Sothern Methodist University who cannot only tell you what time it is but tell you something about time,...