BBC: Database: History: On this Day

An impressive collection of events that took place on various days in history. Using drop-down menus you can select a day and month. The database focuses on the years, 1950-2005. You can also browse...

Digitization: French University Brings Manuscripts of Stendhal Into the 21st Century

From the Article: …Marie-Henri Beyle, or Stendhal as he came to be known, has become the latest of France’s literary giants to be dragged into the 21st century courtesy of painstaking...

Discrediting the Easy Crediting of Easy Credit

Here’s a letter that I sent earlier today to the Washington Post: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke asserts – as if it’s an incontrovertible fact – that “The Fed played a major...

New: Collection of Digitized Civil War Photographs Released by Army Heritage and Education Center

Note: To access the collection described below, go to: http://www.ahco.army.mil and click on the “MOLLUS- Massachusetts Photograph Collection” link. From the Article: Earlier this month,...

New Online: 5,000 Previously Unpublished Documents of the Founders of the United States

From the Article: More than 200 years after they were written, some 5,000 previously unpublished documents of the founders of the United States — including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James...