History

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D-Lib November 2003 Roy Rosenzweig	Center for History and New Media Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University has employed digital media and computer technology to transform the ways that scholars, students, and the general public understand and interpret the past.
Wild West Gregory F. Michno	The Real Villains of Sand Creek Colonel John Chivington and Colorado Territorial Governor John Evans are usually portrayed as the men who brought on the 1864 "massacre." But, in this fresh perspective, the true scoundrels in the affair are a half-dozen others, with Major Edward Wynkoop at the top of the list.
Wild West J. Jay Myers	The Notorious Fight At Sand Creek More often called a massacre than a battle, the attack by Colonel John M. Chivington's Colorado volunteers on Chief Black Kettle's village will forever be controversial.
Wild West Bob Boze Bell	Wild Women of the West Some of the ladies were short on virtue, but virtually all of them were long on courage as they faced the dangers and uncertainties of life on the frontier.
Wild West McCune & Hart	The Fatal Fetterman Fight Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army's greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Richard S. Dunham	How The Parties Got That Way One marvel of American democracy is the durability of its founding principles. The same consistency doesn't apply to the nation's major political parties, as two companion volumes from Random House on the histories of the Democrats and the Republicans show.
Science News November 15, 2003	TimeLine: November 11, 1933 Rare bird courtship shown by new museum group... Streamlining saves power of 1933 automobiles... New low weight for neutron discovered by atom-smashers
Reason November 2003 Joe Bob Briggs	Kroger Babb's Roadshow How a long-running movie walked the thin line between exploitation and education
Reason November 2003 Glenn Garvin	The Gipper and the Hedgehog How an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world -- a review of Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, by Peter Schweizer
Reason November 2003 Charles Paul Freund	Weasels Ripped Our Flesh The forgotten world of men's adventure magazines
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