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Linton Weeks

Recent Contributions

  • Five bestselling authors you may not have heard of
  • 4 foods Americans don't eat much anymore
  • Sands of time: Beach etiquette of long ago
  • 12 lost American slangisms from the 1800s
  • When America's librarians went to war
  • When 'womanless weddings' were trendy
  • Do we talk funny? 51 American colloquialisms
  • 7 lost American slang words
  • The secret history of knock-knock jokes
  • How black abolitionists changed a nation