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Web 2.0: Part I

Featured on the Britannica Blog this week is the first of three essays by Michael Gorman, past president of the American Library Association. His subject is the state of learning, education, and information gathering in the era of “Web 2.0.” His posts will cover blogging and the “citizen journalist,” intellectual laziness, and the online “cult of the amateur.” Alternative views will be offered by various writers throughout the week.

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Anne Frank—a young Jewish girl whose diary of her family's two years in hiding during the German occupation of The Netherlands became a classic of war literature—was born this day in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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According to Amy Lifson of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Battle Cry of Freedom helped launch an unprecedented national renaissance of interest in the [American] Civil War." Its author, James McPherson of Princeton University, won a Pulitzer Prize for this book, and he's a member of Britannica's Editorial Board of Advisors. This classic book is available from the Britannica Store.

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