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Further Review is a graphical journalism feature that explores American history, pop culture, politics, and more. Produced by veteran newspaper designer Charles Apple, it's published in the Spokesman-Review in print and online, four times a week — as well as in papers all over the country.

We all study history in school. Many times, the history is drilled into us with long lectures, a boring regurgitation of these lessons expected with each terrifying quiz. History doesn't have to be that way, in-fact, it can be fun.

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About The Book

A photo of the Further-Review book

Charles Apple's Further Review feature runs four times a week in the Spokesman-Review and periodically in hundreds of other newspapers. But with this book, anyone anywhere in the world can get a print copy in their hands.

Published by Pediment Publishing (our partners for the Year in the Fields book we released in 2017), the new book was custom-crafted by Charles Apple to fit the horizontal format of a traditional book, reading left-to-right, rather than vertically, as it appears in our newspaper.

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Great for educators, parents, and history buffs, the book breaks down complicated topics in American history, forming a series of visual lectures from a designer with 40 years of experience in newspapers.

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About Charles Apple

Two Further Review pages run side-by-side in The Atlanta Journal-Constistution

Charles has worked in the newspaper industry for 40 years, sometimes in the U.S., sometimes not - like when he taught in South Africa. His work has been taught in newsrooms and classrooms and has appeared in more than 250 publications.

Read more about Charles, in his own words.

Run Charles Apple's Content

Charles Apple's pages runs in hundreds of newspapers — for free — under the Creative Commons license. On Spokesman.com, they're always available outside of the paywall, for anyone to read or reprint.

Without Creative Commons, the work of Further Review would not be possible. Almost every page contains some photo used from WikiMedia, goverenmental archives, or other sources being used under the principles of fair use.

If you'd like to run these pages in your paper, print them for your classroom, or pitch them to your newspaper, consult our guide on how to publish these pages.