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Archives for History Matters

Google-Mapping Marco Polo’s Travels

September 2, 2008

…over at A Historian’s Craft. You can keep up via RSS feed. (Which reminds me–you can sign up for my feed, too.) This reminds me of the literary geospaces projects I wrote about for the Chronicle not long ago. This digital humanities stuff has legs. (Via HNN.)

Another Reason to Love the LOC

February 7, 2008

Library of Congress blogger Matt Raymond reports the sad news that Harry Landis, one of the last two known American vets of World War I, died on Monday at the very respectable age of 108: That leaves 107-year-old Frank Buckles of Charles Town, W. Va., as the sole surviving American veteran of the “Great War”… Continue reading »

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