Select news coverage of the LBC/President's House controversy

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• In small bits, slave history is being told
  July 29, 2003 [Ron Goldwyn, Philadelphia Daily News]
  
  
• Race in the Park
  July 2003 [Sharon Ann Holt, Common-Place]
  
  
• Don't Tread on Me
  July 10-16, 2003 [Deborah Bolling, Philadelphia CityPaper]
  
  
• Op-ed: Echoes of ancestors overshadow the 4th
  July 8, 2003 [Linn Washington Jr., Philadelphia Tribune]
  
  
• Historical Whitewash
  July 3-9, 2003 [Ainé Ardron-Doley, Philadelphia CityPaper]
  
  
• Black Independence Day Flier and Position Paper
  July 3, 2003 [Michael Coard, ATAC]
  
  
• Demonstrators Want African Memorial On Independence Mall
  July 3, 2003 [John Ostapkovich, KYW-NewsRadio 1060]
  
  
• The other side of liberty
  July 3, 2003 [Stacy A. Teicher and Walter H. Robinson, Christian Science Monitor]
  
  
• Slavery in the heart of freedom
  June 29, 2003 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Historical Gap at the Mall
  May 22-28, 2003 [Mary F. Patel, Philadelphia City Paper]
  
  
• Liberty-Bell Plan Shows Freedom and Slavery
  April 23, 2003 [Stephen Mihm, New York Times, Special Arts Section]
  
  
• Park Service closely guards fence design
  April 17, 2003 [Linda K. Harris, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Flagging attendance
  April 14, 2003 [Peter Van Allen, Philadelphia Business Journal]
  
  
• Group fights for accurate slave portrait
  April 8, 2003 [Nia Ngina Meeks, Philadelphia Tribune]
  
  
• For Park Service, a struggle to broaden its view
  April 6, 2003 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Uncle George's Cabin
  February 22, 2003 [Jack D. Warren Jr., Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, VA]
  
  
• Changing Skyline: Slave memorial could let city stand out, but design risks sending wrong message
  February 14, 2003 [Inga Saffron, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Liberty Bell site plan to show liberty denied
  February 13, 2003 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Let's tell the whole story
  January 19, 2003 [Carol Talley, The Sentinel]
  
  
• The ring of truth
  January 17, 2003 [Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Plans for memorial near Liberty Bell under scrutiny
  January 16, 2003 [Randy Pennell, AP, CNN.com]
  
  
• Design of Liberty Bell site criticized
  January 16, 2003 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• NPS Press Release: Independence National Historical Park to Unveil Preliminary Designs for President's House Site
  January 7, 2003 [Phil Sheridan, Independence National Historical Park]
  
  
• Embracing Our History of Slavery
  January 4, 2003 [Lorene Cary, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Pennsylvania slavery by the numbers
  January 4, 2003 [Melissa Dribben, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• The colorful past
  January 4, 2003 [Kenneth Finkel, executive director of arts and culture service at WHYY, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Planners rethink slavery, liberty project
  December 25, 2002 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• George Washington's Philadelphia Slave Quarters
  December 2, 2002 [Edward Lawler, Jr., History News Network]
  
  
• Editorial: Park Service's promise on slave flap is doubted
  November 3, 2002 [Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Pennsylvania: 'Servants' vs. 'Slaves'
  November 1, 2002 [New York Times, New York Times]
  
  
• Proposed wording on slave quarters draws fire
  October 31, 2002 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Full story must be told at new bell site
  October 25, 2002 [Blondell Reynolds Brown, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Liberty Bell has updated history
  October 18, 2002 [Linn Washington, Jr., The Philadelphia Tribune]
  
  
• National Park Service News Release: Liberty Bell Center Exhibit Preview Now on Independence National Historical Park Website
  October 9, 2002 [Phil Sheridan, 215-597-0060, NPS]
  
  
• Unfolding story — Fuller picture of Philadelphia history will be part of old and new attractions
  October 6, 2002 [Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Op-Ed: "Biography" enriches history of Hall
  August 20, 2002 [Linn Washington Jr., The Philadelphia Tribune]
  
  
• Tourism relies on telling story of slaves at Liberty Bell site
  August 19, 2002 [Tanya Hall, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Slavery story to be part of bell site
  August 11, 2002 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Multicultural congress pushes for slave memorial at Liberty Bell
  August 9, 2002 [Ron Goldwyn, Philadelphia Daily News]
  
  
• How to tell Phila. slavery story
  July 11, 2002 [Jane Eisner, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Op-Ed: Philly's Black elected officials MIA
  July 9, 2002 [Linn Washington Jr., Philadelphia Tribune]
  
  
• Fattah Law Requires Park Service To Pay Tribute To Slaves
  July 9, 2002 [Rebecca Kirszner, Press Release]
  
  
• Briefly... Protesters seek memorial at Liberty Bell for slaves
  July 5, 2002 [Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Daily News]
  
  
• 500 seek slave memorial at Liberty Bell
  July 4, 2002 [Nora Achrati, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• History Lesson
  July 3, 2002 [Solomon Jones, Philadelphia Weekly]
  
  
• A visitor's innocent query spurs historic revelations
  July 3, 2002 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Op-Ed: July 4th celebrations are flawed patriotism
  July 2, 2002 [Linn Washington Jr., The Philadelphia Tribune]
  
  
• In liberty's shadow
  June 13, 2002 [Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Letter: 'Getting it right' at the Liberty Bell Center
  June 12, 2002 [Edward Lawler Jr., Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• As Liberty Bell flap continues, a slave memorial is suggested
  June 2, 2002 [Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Editorial: Whole story of slavery, Liberty Bell still untold
  May 16, 2002 [Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• National Briefing: Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania: Park Service Changes Its Plans
  May 15, 2002 [Dinitia Smith, New York Times]
  
  
• Liberty Bell's new home will address slavery
  May 14, 2002 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• WHYY coverage continues
  Nov. 19, 2001 - May 13, 2002 [Various, WHYY-FM]
  
  
• Review of the Controversy
  May 1, 2002 [Rick Folbaum, Fox News]
  
  
• Discussing slavery at Liberty Bell site
  April 24, 2002 [Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Burying Slave Past is a Travesty
  April 15, 2002 [William C. Kashatus, Philadelphia Daily News]
  
  
• Controversy Surrounds New Location For Liberty Bell
  April 9, 2002 [Bruce Craig of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History. (NCCPH), NCC Washington Update, Vol. 8, #14]
  
  
• Unearth bitter history of Washington's slaves
  April 2, 2002 [Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Park Service burying a shameful fact
  April 2, 2002 [Linn Washington Jr., Philadelphia Tribune]
  
  
• Don't bury the past
  March 31, 2002 [Gary B. Nash and Randall M. Miller, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Park Service's task: Making history accessible
  March 31, 2002 [Charlene Mires, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Presidents' House site marginalized ... again
  March 31, 2002 [Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Historians decry burying history for Liberty Bell
  March 30, 2002 [Joann Loviglio, The Associated Press]
  
  
• Horsey wants slave quarters marked at future Liberty Bell site
  March 28, 2002 [State Representative Michael Horsey, 190th Legislative District, Philadelphia County, Press Release]
  
  
• Freedom & slavery
  March 27, 2002 [Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Street: Let pavilion work proceed
  March 26, 2002 [Inga Saffron Inquirer Architecture Critic, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  
• Echoes of slavery at Liberty Bell site
  March 24, 2002 [Stephan Salisbury and Inga Saffron, Inquirer Staff Writers, Philadelphia Inquirer]
  
  

• Bulldozers Trample Site Where Washington Slept
  February 22, 1952 [James R. George, Philadelphia Inquirer]