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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Scandalous swirls like the Bunny Hug, Turkey Trot and Grizzly Bear may have even rattled President-elect Woodrow Wilson. -
Refused at first as a re-enactor, J.R. Hardman turned to historic, real-life pioneers for inspiration. -
In the early 20th century, Chinese athletes in the U.S. sometimes found social liberation on the basketball courts. -
Many of today's fitness trends can be traced back to the pioneering programs of the YMCA.
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For some strange reason, people across America began to notice that thousands of automobile windshields were dotted with teeny-tiny pockmarks. -
In post-World War I America, young people shocked their elders with jazz music, jittery dancing and public displays of affection.
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Communication breakdown is not a new phenomenon. American history features a mass — and a mess — of misunderstood messages. -
By culling through the culinary offerings of thousands of old menus in the Los Angeles Public Library's collection, we can learn a lot about a city and its history. -
When John Coray and other vintage "ballists" gather to compete using 19th century rules and trappings, the baseball diamond becomes a field of dreamers.
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American English has a rich history of regionalisms — which sometimes tell us a lot about where we come from.
