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Pop culture portrays the Amish community as a living time capsule, a throwback to a simpler time, and to an extent, that’s accurate. Many Amish drive horse-drawn buggies instead of automobiles, play board games instead of PlayStation and meet face-to-face instead of texting. They set themselves apart from the English—anyone who is not Amish—with their…
On July 4, 2026, America celebrated its 250th birthday in New York City, not with rockets blasting into space or a parade of driverless cars on Wall Street, but with the largest Parade of Sail…
What images come to mind when you think of Vietnam? A peasant in the conical nón lá hat, harvesting rice from the fields? Colorful lanterns dancing from the masts of river boats or the corrugated eaves…
Ever since the pilgrims’ arrival in 1620 America has dreamed of expanding westward. A Promised Land existed beyond the Appalachians, across the fertile Ohio Valley and on the other side of the Great Plains. America’s Manifest…
By Kerrick James This summer Americans began celebrating Route 66, America’s Mother Road. It was formally established on November 11, 1926, in the heart of the Roaring Twenties, when newly affordable automobiles like Ford’s Model T…
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By David DeVoss It was the opening game of the baseball season and the atmosphere…
By David DeVoss It was a beautiful autumn day in 1887 when Mac McGillivray and…
Publisher Indiana University Press | Author Steve Raymer
Reviewed by Caroline Erskine
In the world of publishing, there are some books that fit into the world you inhabit — by work, or simply by life experience. You tend to see those books through the small details that make a life in journalism so interesting. Steve Raymer’s Somewhere West of Lonely: My Life in Pictures is one of those books. Raymer’s career with the National Geographic ran from the early 1970s through the 1990s into the new century — a period sometimes described as the golden years of photojournalism. The magazines had big budgets, pages to fill, and were fiercely competitive. That competition made its way down the food chain to the photographers themselves.The photographers who thrived in that era were driven to tell stories with pictures, to follow the news, to relate the state of humanity. Read More
