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All Joking Aside
Last March, I received an unusual email. It came to the Press’s general mailbox and was passed around until it landed on my desk. The email was from a high school student on a speech and debate team who was preparing a performance on Hollywood’s...
The Telegraph and the Origins of the 24-Hour News Cycle
Perhaps it’s the election of 2016. More and more of us, it seems, are obsessively checking the news on cable channels and websites several times a day. Or we haunt Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates. We typically think of this obsession with the news...
Behind the Book: Maryland Blood
Maryland Blood is a stirring, true-life adventure story spanning four centuries of American history. Seen through the unique lens of one Maryland family’s eyes, the adventures unfold through Hambleton letters preserved in archives across the United States...
The Outlook Is Bleak
America is losing the fight against HIV/AIDS. Last year, CDC leaders summarized the evidence in the New England Journal of Medicine. The most compelling data show that for the last 20 years the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States has...
The Value of Pain?
One of the interesting things I learned while researching my book, was the way our conception of pain has changed over time. Prior to 1900, pain was viewed as an immediate and short-lived response to an injury or illness – the body’s emergency warning system...
Hoax: Franklin's Forgery
The following is an excerpt from chapter nine of Gregory Dowd's latest book, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier. Late in the Revolutionary War, in Passy, France, [Benjamin] Franklin lifted his pen in a most extraordinary...
Irish Romanticism and Climate Change
Like many of my friends and neighbors in Spokane, Washington this summer, I have been preoccupied with a second consecutive year of major wildfires. We have endured prolonged stretches where the Air Quality Index has been deemed “unhealthy” or even “hazardous...