Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
Weeks is originally from Tennessee, and graduated from Rhodes College in 1976. He was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in 1986. The magazine was bought — and crushed — in 1989 by Time-Warner. In 1990, he was named managing editor of The Washington Post's Sunday magazine. Four years later, he became the first director of the newspaper's website, Washingtonpost.com. From 1995 until 2008, he was a staff writer in the Style section of The Washington Post.
He currently lives in a suburb of Washington with the artist Jan Taylor Weeks. In 2009, they created to honor their beloved sons.
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In the spirit of American self-reliance, Charles Varle penned a personal guidebook for 19th century Americans. -
Crowdsourcing a story: All of us know more than any one of us, so here is the seed of a story idea that I hope you will help me cultivate into a full-flowering history post. -
If getting all of these Union commanders together in one room to pose for this photo seems like an impossible task, it was. It didn't happen. -
History books tell us that times were hard in the 1800s. But there was occasional humor. Some of it was even funny. -
Words of wisdom from an American president — spread, savored, satirized. -
Many extremely popular writers of the 19th century are now pretty much forgotten — and gone with the wind. -
In earlier America, before the automobile reigned supreme, the family wagon was often the target for seasonal mischief and mayhem. -
More than 80 years before Photoshop was introduced, a clever photographer doctored this picture — and tampered with history.
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How certain words related to addictive behavior have shifted over the centuries — in 14 colorful charts.
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For 100 years the pen has been mightier than the boredom for crossword puzzle aficionados.
