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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Today's lingo seems creative, but slang in 19th century America was every bit as colorful.
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A brief and incomplete study of men's hats in American history — and what they reveal.
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At the turn of the 20th century, millions of birds were being sacrificed for fashionable hats — until women flocked together to protest.
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For Victorian athletes in America, the game on the diamond gave them a chance to compete against men — and win. Re-enactment teams offer the same opportunity to modern women.
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Designed to provide pleasure, street pianos in 19th and 20th century America were also magnets for some mischief and malevolence.
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During the world wars of the 20th century, librarians played a role worth remembering.
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How certain words related to sexual behavior have shifted over the past two centuries.
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How a group of perhaps-clueless farmgirls from Iowa rose to theatrical fame and infamy at the same time.
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The ink on the Supreme Court's landmark decision was hardly dry before the New York Public Library mounted a pop-up exhibit about same-sex relationships.
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A quartet of quirky fads faded away into the American mist.