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Edwin Porter wrote the first book on the Lizzie Borden killings. Help honor his memory.
The Herald News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFALL RIVER — By the time Edwin H. Porter was 30 years old, he'd traveled the country, had multiple...
Women of Taunton: Silent film star Elsa Lorimer went from Silver City to the silver screen
Taunton Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSilent films can be tricky to find. According to a 2013 comprehensive survey of silent films...
Virginia Gardner, a star Tribune reporter whose Communist sympathies didn’t fly with Col. McCormick
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoOn May 31, 1937, Virginia Gardner, realized that while some journalists work for a paycheck, others...
Illinois’ Underground Railroad: Stories of escaping enslavement
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months ago“By any means necessary” was no overstatement when it came to the life-or-death flight to freedom through Illinois’ Underground Railroad. John and Eliza Little walked hundreds of miles from ...
Is long-form journalism dying? A five-minute read
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAmid relentless teletype buzz of bad news, the newspaper industry printed an obituary this week for one of its last traditional sources of long-read...
SouthCoast Wonders: The girl with the 'upside-down stomach' who went viral in Fall River
The Herald News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoViral news stories aren't a new thing. Here's how Dr. Truesdale saved “the girl with the upside-down...
Deep in the inky waters of Loch Ness lies a monster tale. What we know about its origin
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 5 months agoLoch Ness owes its fame to a monster. And the monster owes its fame to a newspaper. The Inverness...
The hidden story of when two Black college students were tarred and feathered
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAfter spending years examining the violent Red Summer of 1919, historian Karen Sieber discovered a...