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These pieces all show how news organizations can give some life to a history lesson by making it interactive.

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The Ottawa Citizen had reporter Chris Lackner retrace a path on the Underground Railroad on an adventure that took 93 days. A photographer recorded the journey and Lackner reported in a blog. The Web site also has an interactive journey that lets the user make decisions and experience the trip of escaping from the south to Canada.

As part of its Burning of Columbia special report, The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., and TheState.com created a game that helped users track Gen. William T. Sherman's ruinous march on the city 140 years ago. To save the city from burning, players must answer the quiz questions correctly. Each wrong answer engulfs a section of the city in flames.