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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Times change and so do manners. We reassess good behavior in 2015. -
Center stage for many historic protests and demonstrations, the National Mall has fallen on hard times. -
Americans of the past were fascinated by luxurious dining experiences — or at least by the tales of such extravagant exploits. -
Like a time slingshot, the 1920 silent movie The Daughter of Dawn transports us back to another era — and another. -
Traditionally, the three daily meals in America are breakfast, lunch and dinner. But did our forebears eat four times a day instead of three? -
As an aspirant to the Republican presidential nomination, the businessman/entertainer reminds some people of notable politicians of the past.
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American history repeats itself often enough that we sometimes feel like we are living in an infinite loop. Here is a quiz that explores that notion. -
Hairpin stealing, ring turning and automobiling — apparently folks in turn-of-the-20th-century America were as fad-prone as we are today. -
When the precious metal was discovered in California in the late 1840s, hordes of fortune seekers headed there from all over the world — some taking large amounts of tortoises with them. -
'Indian cowboy': Though it may sound like an oxymoron, Native Americans have been riding horses and roping cattle for centuries in the Sunshine State.
