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Sep 8, 2007Cliopatria Captivates
The Internet has opened up a rich forum for all manner of historical material and debate, from massive photo and document archives such as those at the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov) to captivating blogs such as Cliopatria (hnn.us/blogs/2.html) and Steamboats Are Ruining Everything (www. steamthing.com). Institutions like the Holocaust Museum are bringing history alive in powerful ways that don't sacrifice accuracy for impact.Thanks to Dave Davisson at Revise & Dissent for the tip.-- Keith Goetzman,"History Lessons: What We're Taught and What's Ignored," Utne Reader, September/October.
Other articles in the current issue of the Utne Reader of interest to historians: Howard Zinn's"Can We Handle the Truth? America's Selective Memory and Massacres Long Since Forgotten," Patrick Hicks's"In the Trenches," on using Wilfred Owen's poetry to teach history; and Stacy Perman's"Forgetting Hitler," about young German Muslims. And, yah, if you're reading Cliopatria, you should also be reading Revise & Dissent and Steamboats are ruining everything.
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