A sprawling oral history of Gold’s Gym recounts bodybuilding’s transformation from a small, niche scene to a mainstream cultural phenomenon (thanks, in no small part, to one entrepreneurial Austrian immigrant).
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nell Boeschenstein, Hannah Giorgis, David Davis, Chris Randle, and Kelly Conaboy.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg, and Jack Nicas; Phil Klay, Harley Rustad, Michael Graff, and Alan Siegel.
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Putting Enslaved Families’ Stories Back in the Monticello Narrative
Author Andrew M. Davenport highlights how the work of an oral history project, Getting Word, has informed a shift in the visitor experience of Thomas Jefferson’s primary estate, Monticello.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Bruenig, Michael Hobbes, Jesse Barron, Matthew Walsh, and Alan Siegel.
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Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
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The Underground Magazine That Helped Shape Portland, Oregon
Before Portland was a known entity, a group of volunteers and one charismatic editor published an indie arts magazine called Snipehunt. This is its story.
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It’s Possible: An Oral History of 1997’s “Cinderella”
For years, Whitney Houston had envisioned a version of the previously white “Cinderella” for young black girls. Here is the story of the historic film’s creation, told by the people who made it happen.
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The March on the Pentagon: An Oral History
To pressure President Johnson to end the Vietnam War, nearly 100,000 people marched in Washington DC in October, 1967. The Times asked over 20 eyewitnesses to tell the story.
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25 Years of Vibe Magazine
From its first issue in 1993, Vibe magazine reflected the “multicultural mainstream.”
