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Article: Unlocking history's trove: presidential library Web sites offer powerful education opportunities. (The Online Edge).
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- June 1, 2003
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How educationally valuable would it be if your teachers and students could gain access to six boxes of formerly classified presidential documents kept locked in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's White House safe in the '30s and '40s? And what insights might they derive from combing through President Truman's diaries, letters and speeches describing negotiations with the Allies and detailing feelings about his decision to drop the atomic bomb in World War II?
Such original source materials would humanize historic events that are part of the curriculum in every school district and provide perspectives on presidential decisions that no textbook could duplicate.
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