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A nice gallery of photos from the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, coming up this October

Interactive sites: Moon Exploration Cuban Missile Crisis White House Diary--JFK's daily schedule while in office JFK Timeline Integrating Ole Miss Virtual Museum Tour

Topics: U.S./1945 - 1991; World/Russia; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cold War;

This excellent article explains how the movie "13 days" misrepresents the actual events.

Time article from 1982, 20th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis

In April 1847, a group of pioneers left Omaha, Nebraska and headed west. Their group consisted of 147 men, three women, and two children. Their journey would cover more than 1,000 miles, and cross the Rocky Mountains. This small group would pave the way for more than 70,000 people to make the same journey. On Monday, April 5, 2010 you can start following the same journey as volunteers reenact the 1847 Pioneer Trek via Twitter. More info at http://twhistory.org/1847-pioneer-trek/. The TwHistory project began in early 2009 with the first Twitter reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg over a period of several weeks. Later that year a high school class reenacted the Cuban Missile Crisis. TwHistory is based on the idea that historical reenactments can take place online and have positive effects for all involved. In school settings these virtual reenactments can increase engagement while providing opportunities for students to research personal journals and other primary source documents. In order to organize, study, and preserve these online reenactments we have created http://TwHistory.org

I've found this to be a great source of information on the Cold War, and they have an email newsletter (which makes it easy to keep up with news, etc).

Will contain some interesting documents relating to events in American history during the 20th and 21st centuries. Definitely one for the conspiracy nuts.