CHRONICLING AMERICA IN THE NEWS: "Those Slippery Snake Stories," Humanities, May/June 2015

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In the May/June 2015 issue of "Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities," historian and journalist Andie Tucher explores the nature of news. In "Those Slippery Snake Stories," Tucher, director of the Ph.D. program in communications at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, pulls together multiple articles drawing on the same facts to show that newspapers "reveal not just what people used to talk about, but also how they talked about the things that mattered to them--how they shaped stories to make sense of their world." Using an unusual story, she illustrates the value of comparing millions of historical newspapers gathered together in a resource like Chronicling America and explores how this comparison can lead to new discoveries....Read more about it and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!