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Uncharted Territory

Google guru Vinton Cerf talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the Internet's role in the humanities.

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Not Just Another Ice-Cream-Suit-Wearing, Pen-Wielding Master of the Statusphere

NEH Chairman Bruce Cole speaks with Tom Wolfe about his role as the Balzac of our times.

Woman on Phone

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Take My Husband, Please

Wife finds her husband practices both medicine and burglary.

San Francisco in the early 1900s

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Impertinent Questions

Newspaper Contest in 1908 asked "When Is It Time to Go Home?"

Philip Lampi

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The Orphan Scholar

Philip Lampi's lifelong quest to document elections of the early Republic.

Cartoon showing Pegler charging racketeers with a pen

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Who Was Westbrook Pegler?

The original right-wing takedown artist

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A Ladies' Rumble

Mad hatter tears worshipper's chapeau in two during Sunday service.

Lifeguard offers a swimming lesson, 1951, photograph by Teenie Harris

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Teenie Harris Image Collection

African-American news photographer “Teenie” Harris’s career at the Pittsburgh Courier spanned forty years, during which time he recorded daily life in Iron City’s many diverse neighborhoods.

Manuscript

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The Ubiquitous Book

The rise of America's culture of print.

John Mitchell, Jr., editor, Richmond Planet

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Brother from the Richmond Planet

Crusading Journalist John Mitchell Jr. took on the lynchers.