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Re: Civil War - fact or fiction



But, gosh and gee whiz, didn't Ken Burns use actual film footage of the
Civil War in his special? (AAAaaaaiiiiiieeeeeee!!!!)

Dennis "Only grinning because he overheard someone actually say it" Moser,
MILS, Web Librarian
John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
1133 M. D. Anderson Blvd, Houston, TX 77030-2809
dennism@library.tmc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: O'Brien, Jeff (Clerks) <Jeff.OBrien@CITY.SASKATOON.SK.CA>
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Civil War - fact or fiction


>I thought the original post *was* fairly funny, but what what I thought
most
>interesting about it is that it demonstrates pretty clearly the kind of
>traps that the internet lays for the unwary researcher.
>
>I assume that none of those things in the original post were true. (Except
>for watching the Ken Burns special on the History Channel my knowledge of
>the US Civil War is pretty limited. Benedict Arnold riding up San Juan Hill
>or something, right?) But lots of them sounded like they could have been
>true and if I was a high school person using the Net to write an essay and
>came across a site with this stuff I would probably take it as gospel.
>
>just my .02
>
>
>Jeff "just kidding about benedict arnold" O'Brien
>
>
>> ----------
>> From:         Edwin G. Frank[SMTP:efrank@anduril.memphis.edu]
>> Sent:         Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:09 PM
>> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>> Subject:      Re: Civil War
>>
>> I'd appreciate this sort of nonsense-- if it was actually funny . . .
>>
>> Ed Frank
>>
>>
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