Antero Pietila & Stacy Spaulding

A Jewish State

By Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl proposes a solution to the 'Jewish Question' and to anti-Semitism: a separate and independent ...

My Father's Girl

By Jane Addams

Jane Addams, whose Hull-House became a symbol of progressive reform, here remembers her father who helped ...

Paris Goes to War

By Edith Wharton

As the World War engulfs Europe in August 1914, Edith Wharton reports from Paris on the ...

Emancipation

By Lord Charwood

Lord Charnwood recounts the development and importance of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a signal event in American ...

Darwin Changes His Mind

By Charles Darwin

Here is Darwin’s account of his visit to the Galapagos Islands with its myriad species, which ...

A Grand Way to Chronicle a War

By Ronald Weber

A fascinating glimpse of World War II journalism behind the front lines at Paris’s Hotel Scribe, ...

The Genius and the Jerk

By Walter Vatter

Walter Vatter explores the early years of Steve Jobs--was he a genius, or simply an expert ...

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

By William L. Riordon

“I seen my opportunities and I took ’em,” said George Washington Plunkitt in this charming manual ...

Don't Kill The Umpire

A fascinating historical profile of the rise and fall of ...

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Antero Pietila & Stacy Spaulding

Antero Pietila worked for the Baltimore Sun from 1969 to 2004 and served as the paper’s bureau chief in South Africa and Moscow. He is the author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (2010), a history of segregation patterns in Baltimore. Stacy Spaulding is associate professor of journalism and new media at Towson University.

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