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Death of Warren Harding Death of Warren Harding

A kindly, genial man who should never have given up his career as a journalist.

Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors

Army-McCarthy Hearings: Gentelmen’s Agreement Army-McCarthy Hearings: Gentelmen’s Agreement

With his farcical accusations against the Secretary of the Army, Tailgunner Joe meets his Waterloo.

Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Carey McWilliams

Edison’s Phonograph Edison’s Phonograph

The quiet breakfast could end up being a thing of the past if the rumors about Edison inventing a phonograph are true.

Apr 22, 2009 / The Nation

Custer: One of the Indian Outbreaks Custer: One of the Indian Outbreaks

Little Bighorn could end up being as disastrous for the Indians as it was for General Custer.

Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors

Synder-Gray: Fights and Flights in the Newspapers Synder-Gray: Fights and Flights in the Newspapers

Ruth Elder's oversea hop is acclaimed by the daily press as a triumph, although she fell more than six hundred miles short of her destination, and seems from the headlines to h...

Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Silas Bent

The Panic of 1873 The Panic of 1873

On Wall Street, the Panic of 1873 was more like brute terror.

Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors

The Newspaper Biz: ‘More Poison, Please’? The Newspaper Biz: ‘More Poison, Please’?

We have no more hope today of saving the newspaper business than we do the telegraph business. But we can save the news.

Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Rockabilly Blues Rockabilly Blues

Rock. Rock. Rockabilly, rock. Really Billy, really, really rock. Shake your silly hillbilly flock. Sing the Pledge of Allegiance. Sing all the dire anthems of the coming apocalypse. Sing the burning bush. Sing the Wall St. blues & bow down before the bedonkadonk of Britney or the Brits at old Bunker Hill. It's all good... It's all Davy Crockett.

Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Adrian C. Louis

Red Cloth Red Cloth

Red cloth I lie on the ground otherwise nothing could hold I put my hand on the ground the membrane is gone and nothing does hold your place in the ground is all of it and it is breathing

Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jean Valentine

The Branches The Branches

The branches looked first like tepees, but there was no emptiness. Like piles of leaves waiting for fire: at the foot of the wisewoman trees, at the foot of the broken General, next to the tree of the veteran girl who died this summer  slow red cloth

Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jean Valentine

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