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 Foundationto honor their beloved sons.
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How certain words related to sexual behavior have shifted over the past two centuries.
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How a group of perhaps-clueless farmgirls from Iowa rose to theatrical fame and infamy at the same time.
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A quartet of quirky fads faded away into the American mist.
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In July, the U.S. marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the powerful poster campaign that helped the country come to grips with disability rights.
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With bearded brides and deep-voiced flower girls, these surreal, public-spirited rituals delighted American communities for decades.
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Scandalous swirls like the Bunny Hug, Turkey Trot and Grizzly Bear may have even rattled President-elect Woodrow Wilson.
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Refused at first as a re-enactor, J.R. Hardman turned to historic, real-life pioneers for inspiration.
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In the early 20th century, Chinese athletes in the U.S. sometimes found social liberation on the basketball courts.
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Many of today's fitness trends can be traced back to the pioneering programs of the YMCA.
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For some strange reason, people across America began to notice that thousands of automobile windshields were dotted with teeny-tiny pockmarks.