Ellen Wexler
Assistant Digital Editor at Smithsonian
Assistant digital editor, humanities @SmithsonianMag // previously @MomentMagazine
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6 days ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Ellen Wexler
Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the countryside, spreading the alarm on April 18, 1775 Hours before the first shots of the American Revolution rang out, 700 British soldiers stationed in Boston mobilized under cover of darkness, hoping to stop the war in its tracks.
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1 month ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Ellen Wexler
History | This year marks the writer’s 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O’Connor revealed how candid confrontations with darkness lead to moments of reckoning When the film Gone With the Winddebuted in 1939, an extravagant premiere gala unfolded over three days in downtown Atlanta. Thousands gathered outside Loew’s Grand Theater, which had been decorated to resemble a Southern plantation home, to watch the stars arrive.
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1 month ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Jimmy Stamp |Ellen Wexler
History | The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, while others insist it’s linked to the telegraph A few years after the iPhone’s debut, an innovative new keyboard system started making headlines. Known as KALQ, the split-screen design was created specifically for thumb-typing on smartphones and tablets.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Ellen Wexler
Share When students like Billey Jackson died under mysterious circumstances, they were buried in unmarked plots at Boot Hill Cemetery, a graveyard behind the garbage dump at the Florida School for Boys . Billey had landed at the reform school on August 8, 1952, after cutting class three times. The small 13-year-old made friends with older students who shielded him from bullies, but their protection wouldn’t be enough.
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1 month ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Ellen Wexler
When students like Billey Jackson died under mysterious circumstances, they were buried in unmarked plots at Boot Hill Cemetery, a graveyard behind the garbage dump at the Florida School for Boys. Billey had landed at the reform school on August 8, 1952, after cutting class three times. The small 13-year-old made friends with older students who shielded him from bullies, but their protection wouldn’t be enough.
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Paul Revere was immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‘s famous poem, but he wasn’t the only midnight rider on April 18, 1775 https://t.co/So6qsQwbGo
Flannery O'Connor believed that writing fiction was a "plunge into reality," rather than an escape from it. Today marks her 100th birthday. I wrote about why her unflinching vision still resonates https://t.co/37b8MB76rm
"Nickel Boys" was inspired by a brutal Florida reform school, where roughly 50 unmarked graves were discovered during investigations in 2016. I wrote about the film and the 111-year-history that inspired it https://t.co/COvZYuUkCU
