The American West was formed through the “making and defending and reclaiming of home places,” write Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken in Home Lands: How Women Made the West. The exhibit corresponding …
Read More >In this cross-post from his Media Myth Alert blog, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, addresses how the media fueled fears of a “crack baby generation”, and the damaging consequences …
Read More >In this podcast, Peter Schrag, author of Not Fit for Our Society, talks to Chris Gondek about the history of immigration and nativism in America. He finds that nativist attitudes have persisted …
Read More >Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, discusses the “Coffee Party” movement and argues for a return to the coffeehouse as a place for civic debate …
Read More >Media-driven myths aren’t harmless, says W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. Instead, he says, they glorify the news media and can …
Read More >Over the past couple of years, you may have noticed that there aren’t quite as many Starbucks around as there used to be. Hit by compound financial and identity crises, Starbucks closed …
Read More >Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, wrote a guest post last week on the Fed Up with Lunch blog, where blogger “Mrs. Q” chronicles her quest to eat a school lunch …
Read More >“Mark Twain at Play” Exhibition at the Bancroft Library Mark Twain was a hardworking and prolific writer, but how did he spend his time when the “bread-and-butter element” was put aside and …
Read More >When most people think about about government funding, the arts are probably not the first thing to come to mind. Arts funding is often shunted aside in favor of other priorities, and …
Read More >What are media-driven myths? W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, calls them the “junk food of journalism”—tempting but dubious tidbits that distort the facts and perpetuate erroneous information through news …
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