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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All across the country, people are re-creating, reinterpreting, acting out history in some way. These living historians remember the past — and they don't mind repeating it. -
An early pioneer in American pet photography, Frees died in poverty and obscurity. -
In turn-of-the-20th century America, "henpeckery" in married couples was the target of popular humor. -
Deck the halls, stuff the stockings and sharpen your pencils. It's time for a holiday history exam. -
History tells us that when speaking of America's future, perhaps it's a good idea to never say never — and never say always. -
Time was, the merrymaking season was also a time for mischief-making. -
Strung together into a short video, images of the construction of the Library of Congress in the late 19th century illustrate a nation's commitment to knowledge. -
The extraordinary life of George Edwin Taylor and what it can tell us about politics in America — then and now. -
Though it may seem like a fixed point in a fast-moving world, the Thanksgiving holiday continues to change and evolve. -
In the early 20th century, Americans wore gaudy costumes and bizarre masks, and some roved the streets begging for candy and treats — at Thanksgiving time.
