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 The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation to honor their beloved sons.
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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. -
In the spirit of American self-reliance, Charles Varle penned a personal guidebook for 19th century Americans. -
If getting all of these Union commanders together in one room to pose for this photo seems like an impossible task, it was. It didn't happen. -
History books tell us that times were hard in the 1800s. But there was occasional humor. Some of it was even funny. -
In earlier America, before the automobile reigned supreme, the family wagon was often the target for seasonal mischief and mayhem. -
More than 80 years before Photoshop was introduced, a clever photographer doctored this picture — and tampered with history.
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Americans of the past were fascinated by luxurious dining experiences — or at least by the tales of such extravagant exploits.
