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A History of the Fairfax Herald

Founded in 1882 by Captain Stephen Roszel Donohoe, the Democratically-affiliated Fairfax Herald was published weekly in Fairfax, Virginia, where it served as the area’s dominant newspaper for…

Anne McCreryAugust 14, 2015

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Seeing the light of capitalism–Virginia Electric and Power Company ads in the McCarthy era.

Emblematic of Cold War era America, these anti-socialist advertisements for the Virginia Electric and Power Company appear in issues of the Fairfax Herald from the 1950s.…

Anne McCreryAugust 3, 2015

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Reading between the lines: the Comstock Act and ads for the treatment of “female complaints” from the Fairfax Herald.

If you read a newspaper from the late 19th century, you’re liable to be bombarded by various medical advertisements—treatments for catarrh, scrofula, and “watery-blood;” cure-alls like…

Anne McCreryJuly 29, 2015