Primary sources allow someone to access originally and unedited information. It requires a person to interact with the source and extract the information, allowing them to interpret it and accessing t...
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This resource is divided into three sections: The American Revolution, Westward Expansion, and Woman Suffrage. Included are letters, historical documents, diary excerpts, political cartoons, photo...
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A conservative, student-run journal at Tufts university published a satirical Christmas carol that ridiculed black students and campus affirmative action policies, then issued an apology after some...
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New York Times, foodie Steven A. Shaw, author of Turning the Tables: The Insider's Guide to Eating Out, tosses down the gauntlet on the city's recent restaurant crackdown. Noting that flies, sheep,...
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A bear cub drew a crowd of spectators at a Lake Tahoe neighborhood as it munched on barbecue-chicken-and-jalapeno pizza in the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible.
It also apparen...
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Craig Newmark might not be the most obvious choice for a speaker at a conference of newspaper publishers, considering that his Web site Craigslist is often seen as a rival to newspapers by siphonin...
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Members of the International Whaling Commission unanimously
agreed Tuesday to renew the five-year subsistence whaling quotas for
indigenous peoples in the United States ...
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Members of the International Whaling Commission unanimously
agreed Tuesday to renew the five-year subsistence whaling quotas for
indigenous p...
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Manila (dpa) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday urged
countries in the region to boost investments in clean energy sources
to sustain its economic growth and redu...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
TOO MUCH MERCY (The Washington Post, Washington)
IN COMMUTING I. Lewis Libby's prison sentence yesterday,
President Bush took the advice ...
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Abuja (dpa) - The goals of the UN Millennium Development Goals to
halve poverty, hunger and starvation by 2015, would likely be missed
in Africa, the African Union (AU) decl...
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Primary and Secondary Sources in Research
U.S. History Document-Based Activities: Using Primary Sources in the Middle Grades
Tufts satire aimed at affirmative action
