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Jeff Coleman

Senior Correspondent

Jeff Coleman covers Community, Pride and Community News.

Articles by Jeff Coleman

Why the 1920s Still Feel Like Our Decade

Why the 1920s Still Feel Like Our Decade

Jeff Coleman

What Third Places Are and Why They Vanished

Third Places Meaning: What Third Places Are and Why They Vanished

Jeff Coleman

How Prohibition Accidentally Modernized America

Prohibition History: How Prohibition Accidentally Modernized America

Jeff Coleman

Why the Frontier Still Haunts American Storytelling

Frontier Myth American Culture: Why the Frontier Still Haunts American Storytelling

Jeff Coleman

The Forgotten History of America's First Bookstores — AI-generated illustration

History of American Bookstores: The Forgotten History of America's First Bookstores

Jeff Coleman

A 1930s WPA-era writer at a typewriter with a fanned map of the United States behind them.

How The Federal Writers' Project Paid America To Write Itself

Jeff Coleman

Wooden bookstore counter with hand-written staff pick cards

The Quiet Economics of the Independent Bookstore

Jeff Coleman

Grand museum facade on a bright summer morning, no people

Summer Museum Blockbusters 2026: Kahlo in Houston, Basquiat Meets Banksy

Jeff Coleman

Infographic chart of American movie theater attendance 1920 to 1970

America's Grand Movie Palaces, and What Happened to Them

Jeff Coleman

Readers browsing new prize-winning novels at a library table

Pulitzer Prizes 2026 Honor Kraus, Wohl and Lepore

Jeff Coleman

Grooves of a vintage vinyl record under warm studio light

How the National Recording Registry Picks America's Songs

Jeff Coleman

Infographic chart of the Great Books movement timeline 1930 to 1990

The Great Books Craze of Postwar America

Jeff Coleman

Close-up of a vintage reading-course diploma and ribbon pin

The Chautauqua Movement, Explained

Jeff Coleman

Formal gala audience applauding in an ornate opera house

Kennedy Center Honors 2025 Class Salutes Stallone, Strait, KISS, Gaynor, Crawford

Jeff Coleman

Editorial chart timeline of American opera house construction and decline

When Small Towns Built Opera Houses

Jeff Coleman

A conservator restoring a large 1930s-style public mural on a wall

How the Federal Art Project Painted America

Jeff Coleman