Category Archives: Media

Backstory

Posted on August 21, 2010 by LaDale Winling

I just stumbled across Backstory with the American History Guys on WHYY today. This is an NPR show featuring Peter Onuf, Ed Ayres, and Brian Balogh animatedly discussing topics with resonance throughout U.S. history. They draw on scholarly knowledge, but … Continue reading →

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University of Chicago Sit-In, 1962

Posted on April 13, 2010 by LaDale Winling

I thought it worth re-visiting this find from a while back at the request of Angus Johnston. In my dissertation, “Building the Ivory Tower: Campus Planning, University Development, and the Politics of Urban Space,” I research the development of American … Continue reading →

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Journalism and the Web

Posted on August 4, 2009 by LaDale Winling

For some reason I missed Whet Moser’s recap and explanation of the Chicago Journalism Town Hall way back in the Febs. But I just read it tonight — maybe you should, too. My favorite idea that came out of the … Continue reading →

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Evanston Map

Posted on August 1, 2009 by LaDale Winling

The story of this Evanston map restoration is interesting on two counts. First, for the really great restoration process — taken from a curator’s experience with Japanese screen restoration. Second, for indicating how central Northwestern University was to the development … Continue reading →

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Slow Photography

Posted on May 18, 2009 by LaDale Winling

NYT: Fast is fine, but slow can be much better. Digital photography and the ascent of the Web have quickened our jobs. Instead of one deadline a day, we now have continual deadlines, bringing exponentially increasing speed to what we … Continue reading →

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New York Times

Posted on May 15, 2009 by LaDale Winling

One of the most annoying things about the Times is their fealty to New York real estate. You can see the way it shapes their content in showing off working architects in Sketchpad, their profiles of architecture students, overpriced apartment … Continue reading →

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Bruegmann Whopper Watch

Posted on March 11, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Way back in the day when I was a distance running coach and aficionado who paid attention to such things, running journalist Scott Douglas started a project called the Galloway Whopper Watch which documented the excessive claims of marathon success … Continue reading →

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The Tuition Game

Posted on March 2, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Doesn’t this make this seem pretty stupid? Moreso, really — raising tuition for the cachet of having a high sticker price was always pretty stupid. How’s that working out for you now, Ursinus president John Strassburger? P.S. Dear New York … Continue reading →

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The Utopian Ideal

Posted on February 10, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Until his recent departure, the liberal blogosphere affirmed in unison that Bill Kristol was the New York Times’ crappiest op-ed columnist. They were wrong. For as long as he’s been writing there, that title has belonged to Stanley Fish. Again … Continue reading →

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On the Beeb

Posted on February 4, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Desperate for a photo of the north end of the Monadnock Building, somebody from the BBC contacted me about using this photo on my flickr stream. I said “ok” and you can see a multimedia slideshow here. It takes an … Continue reading →

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