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Newseum Video - Lincoln Assassination

Marketing the Archives: Newseum on how the New York Herald reported Lincoln’s Assassination 150 years ago

This short one-minute video from the Newseum is an excellent example of using archival collections for digital storytelling, and of how special collections can be marketed with very little expense and simple multimedia technologies. The video includes a mix of digitized newspapers, historical images, and other primary source documents.

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Digital History Tools: Using Twitter For Historical Reenactment

There has been much chatter on Twitter this week due to it being the 100th anniversary of the Titanic and its ill-fated maiden voyage. And this reminded me of a post that I have been meaning to write for a good year or so, showcasing some of the innovative ways that historians and future historians are using Twitter for historical reenactment.

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