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• Historian’s Guide to Summer: Ice Cream Edition
• Ben Schmidt: Crisis in the Humanities Exaggerated
• Update: Handheld Magic Wand Scanner for $23.99
• Genealogy: 80,000 Plus Family History Pubs Now Online
• Profile: Cornell Fellow Daniel Bessner
• Mad Men Creator Matthew Weiner: Don Draper, Preservationist
• Jill Lepore: History In The Age Of Surveillance
• Lake George Fashion History: The Monokini
• Adirondacks: Fighting For A Wild Upper Hudson, 1968-2013
• Brian Mann: Did I-87 Kill the Champlain Valley?
• The Museum That Turned Its Lobby Into a Flea Market
• Education: Video of Student Testing Meltdown