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LJWorld.com - In Cold Blood: A Legacy

http://www.ljworld.com/specials/incoldblood/

For the 45th anniversary of Truman Capote’s “nonfiction novel” about murders in rural Holcomb, Kansas, student reporters from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln examined the murder case, the book and their long-term effects on the people involved. LJWorld.com supplements the students’ articles and interviews with a timeline, photos, a five-part video documentary, maps and an archive of the Lawrence Journal-World’s coverage of the murders.

Forging America: An Interactive Narrative of Bethlehem Steel

http://www.j-lab.org/forgingamerica.shtml

When Bethlehem Steel was dissolved and its stock canceled one minute before the dawning of 2004, The Morning Call was faced with a unique challenge. It decided to go interactive to cover the end of an era with a multimedia CD-ROM including hundreds of photos, company films, and new video.

The Chicago Tribune - King Tut

http://a630.g.akamai.net/f/630/22240/5m/tribune.download.akamai.com/22025/anon.chicagotribune/tut_king/tut_main.swf

The Chicago Tribune created an interactive map of one of the floors in The Field Museum for the 2006 temporary exhibit, Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. The map gives the users brief descriptions and images of the artifacts relating to King Tut and Egypt.

The Ottawa Citizen - Tracks to Freedom

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/freedom/index.html

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.

TheState.com - Saving Columbia

http://www.thestateonline.com/news/flash/colaburns/cola_burn.html

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.

Fold-Ins, Past and Present

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html?scp=1&sq=interactive&st=cse

Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.

Immigration Explorer

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?ref=us

The New York Times

An interactive map showing immigration patterns to the United States by country and continent since 1880.

Oregon Historical Society Timeweb

http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/timeweb/

An interactive application that allows users to create their own timeline based on historical documents in a database.

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

http://projects.propublica.org/recovery/

“Want to know what’s going on with the stimulus in your area? ProPublica has compiled nearly all the contracts, grants and loans that the government has reported awarding so far in the stimulus program. Type in your county or click on your state to find projects in your area.”

Stimulus: How Fast We’re Spending $792 Billion

http://projects.propublica.org/tables/stimulus-spending-progress

“The success of the federal stimulus program may hinge on the speed with which the government is able to distribute the billions authorized by Congress. Unlike some other estimates of the cost of the stimulus, which are based on spending projections, we took our numbers from the actual budget authority issued by Congress—$792 billion and change.”

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