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Hyphenated History

Pardis Mahdavi | Paris Review | 27th May 2021 | U

Ever seen the name "New-York Historical Society" and wondered at the hyphen? Here's the story. When the Society was founded in 1804, "New-York" was usually written with a hyphen. It stayed that way until Theodore Roosevelt, in a fit of nativism, denounced "hyphenated Americanism" in 1915, and hyphens in general became suspect. New York dehyphenated; the Society stood firm (1,400 words)

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