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 to honor their beloved sons.
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For many Floridians, the tradition of African-American cattle ranchers is an integral part of the state's rich story. -
Using contemporary technology, the "Culture in Transit" project documents and shares photos and memorabilia that might otherwise be lost forever. -
A historical collection of civil rights movement material — stemming from the brutal murder of a teenager in Mississippi in 1955 — finds a home in Florida.
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The campus can be a laboratory of great experimentation — especially when it comes to American English. -
Open a cookbook from the Gilded Age, and you just might be surprised by what our forebears passed around the table.
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Leave it to resourceful Americans to tinker and toy with the royal and ancient game of golf. -
Summertime and the living has not always been so easy on some American beaches. For shore. -
Ever notice how some people from the distant past turned their backs to the camera? -
In the annals of American politics, there have been some pretty quirky quests for the White House. -
Three college professors respond to questions about the evolving challenges of teaching the history of a complex nation.
