As a “living archive,” the site is updated with news stories, infographics, educational and satirical videos, and invitations to political action. The homepage is a case in point. Disasters are placed on both a world map and a timeline. Readers may click on any incident, represented by a color-coded circle, to read the details of…
Dieu aux États-Unis : Un nouvel Adam (44.04) Premier épisode d’une série qui explore la manière dont la foi et la quête de liberté religieuse façonnent la vie publique aux États-Unis, et ce, depuis plus de 400 ans. Cette lutte pour la foi et la liberté s’est forgée notamment à travers la guerre et la…
The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America By Annie Jacobsen Illustrated. 575 pp. Little, Brown & Company. (Disponible à la bibliothèque de Westmount) Présentation de l’éditeur: In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich’s scientific minds. These were…
1,000,000 Minutes of Newsreel Footage by AP & British Movietone Released on YouTube Sur Open Culture This release of “more than 1 million minutes” of news,writes Variety, includes archival footage of “major world events such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, exclusive footage of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the fall of the Berlin…