Andrew Lawler on Muck Rack

Andrew Lawler

Asheville
As seen in: MSN, The New York Times, HuffPost, The Independent (UK), The Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, Yahoo News, National Geographic, NPR and
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Andrew

Contact Andrew, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

What If We’d Never Broken Away From the Brits?

|
By Andrew Lawler
| The Bulwark Verified
(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Shutterstock) MILLIONS OF US WILL SPEND SATURDAY lounging around a grill, eating ice cream, and watching fireworks. The Fourth of July is our midsummer festival in red, white, and blue. It is less fraught than preparing Thanksgiving dinner, much cheaper than Christmas, and far less stressful than the last-minute Halloween scramble to find the right costume.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic

|
By Andrew Lawler
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely embraced. And then the word spread At first, they laughed. Then they scoffed. Finally, they accused him of witchcraft. The Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah had spent years scratching strange marks on paper. In 1821, his fellow tribespeople, disturbed by his obsession, put him on trial for practicing black magic.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic

|
By Andrew Lawler
| Flipboard
21 hours ago Legendary American explorer, frontiersman, and eventual founding father of Kentucky, Daniel Boone, allegedly said, "Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place." There's no telling whether Boone's love for Kentucky was contagious. One way to find out is to explore this state yourself, venturing beyond …
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 228 licensed articles (242 Total)
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified