Category: History

January 14, 2016

All the Editor's Men — Pulitzer's Gold and Watergate

Roy J. Harris examines the legacy and mythology behind the Washington Post’s coverage of Watergate.

January 13, 2016

Ponzi's Scam Exposed! — An Excerpt from Pulitzer's Gold

Read an excerpt from “Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of Public Service Journalism,” by Roy J. Harris Jr.

January 12, 2016

An Interview with Roy J. Harris, author of "Pulitzer's Gold"

Roy J. Harris discusses the history of the Public Service Journalism prize and its impact on journalism and American society.

December 11, 2015

Mary Helen Washington Receives Honorable Mention for MLA Award

Congratulations to Mary Helen Washington, whose book “The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s,” received an honorable mention for the competition for the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature.

November 25, 2015

Forget the Turkey! Doughnuts!

A look at the early history of Thanksgiving as celebrated in New York City.

November 13, 2015

A Chronology of State Making and Capitalist Development in China

Read an excerpt from Ho-fung Hung’s chronology of the development of both capitalism and the state in China from the 16th to the 21st centuries from THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

November 12, 2015

Political Uncertainties in Post-miracle China

Read “Political Uncertainties in Post-miracle China,” an article by Ho-fung Hung, author of THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

November 11, 2015

China Steps Back

Read “China Steps Back,” an article by Ho-fung Hung, author of THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

November 10, 2015

Sinomania and Capitalism

Read an excerpt from “Sinomania and Capitalism,” the introduction to THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD, by Ho-fung Hung.

November 9, 2015

Becoming Way Too Cool: How Neoliberalism Alters How We Feel

Read a guest post on the complicated history of the concept of “cool” and neoliberalism by Shannon Winnubst, author of WAY TOO COOL: SELLING OUT RACE AND ETHICS.

November 6, 2015

Themes from The Con Men

Read a guest post from Trevor B. Milton, coauthor of THE CON MEN: HUSTLING IN NEW YORK CITY, about some of the key threads that tie the book’s many stories together.

November 5, 2015

Cop Cons

Read an excerpt from the introduction to Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton’s THE CON MEN: HUSTLING IN NEW YORK CITY, in which Milton discusses “cop cons” with a former police officer.”