The Pentagon Papers @ 50
From the Washington Post “Made by History,” June 13, 2021 Chris Daly Made by History Perspective Fifty years ago the Pentagon Papers shocked America — and they still matter today We still confront...
View ArticleUkraine’s leader, a Capra-style hero, is winning support by using a key...
Demonstrators watch an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the big screen during a rally in support of Ukraine in Tbilisi, Georgia, on March 4. (Vano Shlamov/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleALL RIGHTS FOR ALL!
Antebellum Ideologies of Liberation By Christopher B. Daly March 25, 2022 / Boston University INTRO In this essay, I will be presenting some highlights from a new book I am working on, called The...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of BuzzFeed News
[ADAPTED FROM MY BOOK COVERING AMERICA, chap 15.] REVOLUTIONS AND EVOLUTIONSHow is it that, without a printing press or a broadcast pipe, by sharing something with a few friends, I can reach...
View ArticleTIME, a century later
TIME: A century later By Christopher B. DalyFor the past 100 years, TIME Magazine has endured challenges from television, internet, and social media to sustain its role as a weekly update on the world...
View ArticleAmerica’s oldest lighthouse
On the occasion of the retirement of the lighthouse keeper at Boston Light, here is a piece I wrote in 1991 about the state of the country’s first lighthouse. I spent the night of the winter solstice...
View ArticleFREDERICK DOUGLASS
AND THE POWER OF LITERACY By CHRISTOPHER B. DALY During his lifetime, which spanned most of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass grew to be many things: from an enslaved slave boy and teenage...
View Article“ALL RIGHTS FOR ALL!”
ALL RIGHTS FOR ALL! Antebellum Ideologies of Liberation By Chris Daly / Boston University March 25, 2022 INTRO In this essay, I offer some HIGHLIGHTS from a new book I am working on, called The...
View ArticleAmerica’s first Black newspaper
March 16 marks the 197th anniversary of the founding of the first Black-owned newspaper in the United States, Freedom’s Journal. During the 1820s, free Blacks in New York City and elsewhere were...
View ArticleA woman making history (and writing it too)
Margaret Fuller pioneered the role of war correspondent in the 1840s. Here’s an excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Democratic Art: the Role of Journalism in the Rise of American Culture. In honor...
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