Smithsonian Magazine correspondent Tom Mueller reflects on the legacy of the Berlin Wall. (June 2006)

Guardian correspondent Kimberly Stanton discusses human rights abuses occurring in Colombia and the attempts of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to distance himself and his government from them. (June 5, 2011)

Guardian correspondent, John Kampfner, discusses what really happened during the rescue of Jessica Lynch and the distortion of the story by the media. (15 May 2003)

In this photographic exhibit, correspondent Peter Millar reports on the collapse of communism and life behind the Berlin Wall in East Berlin.

Dickey Chapelle worked in World War II, the Vietnam War and the Korean War as a photojournalist, one of the first women to do this. She led an unconventional life and took many risks. This is a short biography of her life.

A lesson plan that focuses on Ernie Pyle's famous column entitled "The Death of Captain Waskow," in which learners experience the human cost of war by examining a primary source document.

Directions for helping learners identify the ethical problems and issues that confront embedded reporters, their editors, and their television networks and for discussing the "picture" of war that embedded journalists paint.

The papers of lecturer, reformer, actress, and author Anna Elizabeth Dickinson span the period 1859-1951 but are chiefly concentrated in the years from 1859 to 1911. The collection consists of approximately 10,000 items. Included are...

Chamberlain's life and legacy. Archive includes examples of letters written by and to Chamberlain, a gallery of photographs, and annotated biographical maps courtesy of Google Earth and Google Maps.

Information packed site. Includes a lengthy, but interesting biography, theory on the cause of his death, his works, pictorial, and more.

This is a list of the actual documents with correspondence concerning the Marshall Plan.

An archive Woody Guthrie's correspondence from 1940-50. Could provide insight into Woody's music. Contains a great biographical sketch and timeline. Also, a search aid for additional materials at the Library of Congress about him.

This site from Brigham Young University provides an excerpt from "Current History" by Edwin L. James, a war correspondent for the New York Times. Describes the capture of the Bois de Belleau. (Published June 20, 1918)

A lesson in which students examine the agreements stipulated by the 1949 Geneva convention. They then assess if the Iraqi media's use of POW images is or is not contrary to the tenets of the convention. Students will also discuss the...

This article and corresponding video discuss the end of the Berlin Blockade. Archived.

Read about the war of propaganda the Patriots needed to wage in order to persuade the vast majority of Americans, who were at first ambivalent to the cause of independence, to support the ideals of the Revolutionary War.

This site provides a comprehensive overview of the conflict between Serbia and Croatia. PBS correspondent Elizabeth Gettelman examines Croatia's point of view in her article "Croatia: No One is Innocent" while correspondent Molly Blank...

National Humanities Center provides an essay based on the correspondence of a Quaker Family in colonial Pennsylvania.

Lesson plans, e-notes, activities, and other resources are provided for teaching students reading Jack London's The Call of the Wild and his other works.

An indexing page which links to several pages of letters, diary excerpts, public reports, and personal correspondence relating to the use of the first atomic bomb. Includes letters and petitions drafted by scientists involved with the...

Timeline of The Battle of Fort Mims featuring maps and correspondence from Dr. Neal Smith detailing the fall of Fort Mims.

Maintained by the "McLuhan Studies Journal," this article by Edward Barton from the University of Toronto focuses on Pound's influence on Marshall McLuhan during their years of correspondence. This site is more useful for McLuhan studies...

Read the latest of Walter Cronkite's oral essays for NPR, in which he comments on events in recent history such as the Vietnam War, the U-2 crisis, and so on.

Guardian correspondent Chris McGreal discusses the implications of the death toll on the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (January 23, 2008)