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  • July 2008

    • Abe Lincoln Artifacts May Stay in Indiana

      newser  |  Fort Wayne Journal Gazette  |  Jul 17, 08 7:46 PM CDT

      Abe Lincoln Artifacts May Stay in Indiana

      A prized collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts and memorabilia may not leave his boyhood home of Indiana after all. A coalition of state groups, including the Allen County Public Library and the Indiana State Museum, is one of the three finalists to take control of the collection housed by the recently closed Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, the News-Sentinel reports. A decision is expected in January. More »

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      history  • Indiana  • Abraham Lincoln

    • 'King of Beers' Gets a Taste of Own Medicine

      newser  |  Salon  |  Jul 17, 08 2:40 PM CDT

      'King of Beers' Gets a Taste of Own Medicine

      Anyone who thinks InBev’s buyout of Budweiser represents the end of American beer needs a history lesson, writes Edward McClelland in Salon. Budweiser became the “King of Beers” by killing every other heir to the throne. In 1960, America had 175 traditional, regional breweries, making lagers just like Bud. Anheuser-Busch systematically crushed them all, through its distribution and marketing might. More »

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      beer  • history  • Anheuser-Busch  • Budweiser  • InBev  • brewery  • craft brewers

    • What Early July Says About Early November

      newser  |  Politico  |  Jul 4, 08 1:57 PM CDT

      What Early July Says About Early November

      Barack Obama currently leads John McCain 47% to 43%, but does that mean anything this early? Yes and no. Early July Gallup polls have correctly predicted the eventual popular vote winner in 10 of the last 15 elections, but they missed the mark in four of the last five. Politico looks back. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • election 2008  • history  • Election 2000  • opinion polls  • Gallup poll  • Election 2004

    • A Weekend for 2 Nations to Celebrate

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 3, 08 7:39 AM CDT

      A Weekend for 2 Nations to Celebrate

      Tomorrow is Independence Day, but north of the border today marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, the first settlement of New France and one of the oldest cities in Canada. David Hackett Fischer, a historian writing in the New York Times , uses the occasion to explore a different vision of North America, one predicated not on freedom, but on diversity and exchange. More »

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      Canada  • history  • independence  • Native Americans  • Quebec  • Thomas Jefferson  • Samuel de Champlain

    • Dig Finds Washington's Home (No Cherry Tree)

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 2, 08 6:20 PM CDT

      Dig Finds Washington's Home (No Cherry Tree)

      Archaeologists have found the childhood home of George Washington, the New York Times reports—and despite the popular legend, there's no cherry tree anywhere on the premises. Researchers describe the founding father's Virginia digs as “a very nice gentry house” sporting eight rooms—not the simple cottage pictured in popular imagination. More »

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      history  • archaeology  • America  • Freemason  • excavation  • George Washington

  • June 2008

    • Roosevelt. Reagan. Obama?

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 25, 08 7:26 AM CDT

      Roosevelt. Reagan. Obama?

      The novelty of minorities seeking the White House has occluded the more profound historical importance of this year's contest, Gary Hart says. The 2008 election is a hinge moment that could usher in a new era in American life, writes the former senator in the New York Times , and a victorious Barack Obama would have a chance to define "the next cycle in American history." More »

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      Barack Obama  • United States  • Democratic Party  • history  • Gary Hart

    • Book Reawakens Doubts About Polish Hero Walesa

      newser  |  Economist  |  Jun 13, 08 1:14 PM CDT

      Book Reawakens Doubts About Polish Hero Walesa

      A new book is stirring up an old debate in Poland: Did democratic hero Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity union and former president, collaborate with the secret police? Walesa has successfully defended himself against the claim for 15 years, in and out of court. But historians working with police files say they have new evidence of his involvement for a period in the 1970s, the Economist reports. More »

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      history  • Poland  • Communism  • president  • Eastern Europe

    • Napolean Didn't Meet Aresenic-Laced End

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 10, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Napolean Didn't Meet Aresenic-Laced End

      For decades scholars have debated whether Napoleon, who died in exile on the island of St. Helena in 1821, was poisoned with arsenic by his British captors; as recently as 2002 a biographer wrote that there was "nothing improbable about the hypothesis." But now a team of Italian scientists has conducted a detailed analysis of the French emperor's hair that seems to disprove the theory. More »

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      France  • history  • poison  • Napoleon  • arsenic

    • Campaign Tarnishes Clintons' Legacy

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 9:09 AM CDT

      Campaign Tarnishes Clintons' Legacy

      Hillary and Bill Clinton have led complicated public lives, but they’ve always been winners. Now Hillary’s defeat has jeopardized that legacy, thanks to a campaign that saw her repeatedly stretch the truth, invoke assassination, and lose African-American support. It’s one thing to employ questionable tactics and win, one supporter tells the New York Times . “It’s another to go flat-out in that mode and fail.” More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • Clinton 2008  • history  • legacy

    • On 64th Anniversary, a D-Day Vet Looks Back

      newser  |  Newsday  |  Jun 6, 08 1:48 PM CDT

      On 64th Anniversary, a D-Day Vet Looks Back

      It’s not the horrors of Normandy that haunt Clifton Raynor these days; it’s the horrors of growing old. “Every day is a trying day for me,” the 86-year-old says. Raynor is part of a dying breed who saw D-Day firsthand, and today, on the 64th anniversary of that fateful battle, Newsday sat down to talk with him about it. More »

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      veterans  • World War II  • history

    • Lincoln's Failings Offer Modern Lesson

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 6, 08 7:58 AM CDT

      Lincoln's Failings Offer Modern Lesson

      Abraham Lincoln had his dark days. For a while, Lincoln was mercury-pill-popping, sleep-deprived wreck who briefly considered suicide. “Lincoln went Crazy,” wrote friend Joshua Speed. “It was horrible.” Lincoln, of course, grew out of it, facing his flaws in a way today’s leaders ought to emulate, writes David Brooks in the New York Times. More »

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      politics  • history  • Abraham Lincoln  • sin

  • May 2008

    • Shoot at the Facts, Not at the Messenger

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 30, 08 5:21 PM CDT

      Shoot at the Facts, Not at the Messenger

      Scott McClellan isn't someone Peggy Noonan found herself admiring, she writes in the Wall Street Journal , but she did end up “believing him" after finishing his memoir. He didn’t pen his story to make friends or salvage his image, but rather to set the record straight as he saw it. And first-person accounts are exactly what’s needed: “Feed history,” Noonan demands. More »

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      George W. Bush  • history  • Scott McClellan  • Peggy Noonan

    • 10 Score Later, America Still Loves Lincoln

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  May 19, 08 4:36 PM CDT

      10 Score Later, America Still Loves Lincoln

      Honest Abe may be gone, but an industry of books, debates, and a Spielberg biopic are all alive and well. With Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial coming next year, all three White House hopefuls have invoked his name, and the US Mint is issuing pennies to honor states where he lived. "He changed America's views through his verbiage and thoughts," one expert said. More »

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      history  • America  • Steven Spielberg  • publishing  • Abraham Lincoln  • history of democracy

  • April 2008

    • Collosal Squid Has World's Biggest Eyes

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 30, 08 7:27 PM CDT

      Collosal Squid Has World's Biggest Eyes

      With eyes bigger than dinner plates and orange-sized lenses, a colossal squid being dissected by New Zealand scientists boasts the biggest peepers of any animal—and larger relatives could lurk in the deep, the Telegraph reports. It's "certainly not the largest specimen out there," said one marine biologist, who believes a fully grown colossal squid could weigh in at 1,650 pounds. More »

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      science  • history  • giant squid

    • New China Museum Fuels Tibetan Anger

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 17, 08 11:59 AM CDT

      New China Museum Fuels Tibetan Anger

      China is accelerating construction of a number of museums ahead of August's Olympics, but one is sure to cause serious consternation: the first museum in Beijing devoted to Tibet. Antiquities and historical documents will be used to underline the claim that Tibet is an integral part of China, the New York Times reports—with the Dalai Lama edited out post-1959.  More »

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      China  • Tibet  • Dalai Lama  • history  • Tibetan independence  • museum

    • Behold the Mighty Medicine Ball

      newser  |  ESPN  |  Apr 14, 08 12:22 PM CDT

      Behold the Mighty Medicine Ball

      The thunk of a medicine ball may evoke images of football players doing strength and resistance training, but its history reaches far beyond the advent of modern fitness regimens. ESPN the Magazine chronicles the medicine ball through the ages, from gladiators' workouts to Renaissance medical texts to the earliest days of the US Military Academy. More »

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      athlete  • history  • fitness  • Matt Ryan  • military training  • Romans  • strength training

    • This Just In: Newseum Opens

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 11, 08 4:43 PM CDT

      This Just In: Newseum Opens

      The Newseum reopens today in its new, $450 million home off the National Mall, and reaction to the enterprise is mixed. Granting that the interactive, artifact-laden presentation of the history of news is a good mix of education and entertainment, Edward Rothstein of the New York Times also describes it as “publicity-seeking monument to the news business.” More »

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      media  • journalism  • Washington DC  • history  • museums  • National Mall  • Newseum

    • Top 10 Historically Flawed Flicks

      newser  |  Yahoo!  |  Apr 1, 08 1:10 PM CDT

      Top 10 Historically Flawed Flicks

      Most historical films forgo a few facts for dramatic flair, but these flicks leave truth to the cutting room floor. Yahoo lists the most inaccurate movies ever: 10,000 BC : Woolly mammoths weren't around to help build the pyramids. Gladiator : Emperor Commodus didn't kill his dad... chickenpox did. 300 : Spartan warriors wore bronze armor, not leather Speedos. The Last Samurai : 19th-century Japan did have war advisers, but they weren't American. Apocalypto : Mel's Mayan saviors actually killed off 90% of the indigenous people. More »

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      list  • movie  • film  • history  • 10,000 BC  • 2001: A Space Odyssey  • Memoirs of a Geisha  • 300  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age

  • March 2008

    • 'Tudors': Flashy Fiction Is Far From Fact

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Mar 30, 08 7:00 PM CDT

      'Tudors': Flashy Fiction Is Far From Fact

      In the battle of fact versus flair, it’s pretty obvious which side “The Tudors” comes down on. Showtime’s steamy period soap opera, which premiers its second season tonight, trades a chubby, tight-wearing Henry VIII for slim, sexy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. “It’s sloppy filmmaking,” one historian tells ABC News. “Not one female costume in there is correct for the period. It’s so off the mark it’s laughable.” More »

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      history  • Showtime  • soap operas  • sexy costumes  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers  • Anne Boleyn  • Henry VIII

    • WWII Ship Found After 66 Years

      newser  |  Sydney Morning Herald  |  Mar 17, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      WWII Ship Found After 66 Years

      A legendary Australian war ship sunk in the Indian Ocean by a German raider during World War II has been found nearly intact after 66 years, the Australian PM confirmed today. The HMAS Sydney sank after a 30-minute battle with the Kormoran in Australia's greatest tragedy at sea. The wreckage won't be disturbed, out of respect for the 645 Australian sailors who went down with the ship. More »

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      Germany  • Australia  • World War II  • history  • discovery  • Kevin Rudd  • Indian Ocean  • sailor  • shipwreck  • sonar

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