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Editor's Note: When errors creep into stories, we furnish fixes

Oops, ouch, mea culpa.

Mistakes happen. As hard as we try, there are times when our publication doesn’t catch a date-error, typo or misspelling. Sometimes an item simply needs more explanation to make sense to readers. And much to our chagrin, there

Editor's Note: Historical mistakes: Correcting the record

History is hard.
What passes as history is most often written by those with the means to quickly share their view of events with a wide audience. Often that means newspapers.
In 1943, journalist Alan Barth called news “the first rough draft of histor

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Editor's Note: When errors creep into stories, we furnish fixes

Editor's Note: Historical mistakes: Correcting the record

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