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New resource page on Infotopia on the John F. Kennedy Assassination, as the 50th Anniversary of his death is November 22, 2013. http://www.infotopia.info/kennedy_assassination.html You'll find links to local and national radio, print, and television news reports as well as links to the original Dallas police investigation files. You will also find a direct link to the Zapruder film as well as the lesser known Orville Nix film of the assassination.

A Civil War page created by a sixth-grade student.

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. The creation of Beloit's former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief and Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride, it was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. Mindset List websites at Beloit College and at mindsetmoment.com, the media site webcast and their Facebook page receive more than a million hits annually.

"We Believe that the most exciting way to study the Civil War, is to watch the war unfold on the pages of Original Harper's Weekly Newspapers. Harper's Weekly was the most popular newspaper during the Civil War, and it featured stunning illustrations, an