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One of the stories in last week’s L’Chaim© magazine was about a US Holocaust Memorial Museum project, “History Unfolded,” exploring how US media covered the Holocaust at the time. By coincidence, I heard a program on NPR last week on how a different community is using newspaper archives to explore its tragic history. In the years following the Civil War, and up until the very early 20th century, former slaves would place want ads searching for family members. Many were by mothers seeking their children. The scant biographies were a harsh reminder of the darkest stain on US history. For example, “About 25 years ago, the mother was sold to Mr. Marshal Stroud, by whom, some 12 or 14 years later, she was, for the […]