All Quiet on the Friday Links Front

• NPR memorializes the second-to-last surviving World War I veteran.


• The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, closed for renovations since September 2006, is going to be closed for just a bit longer. (DCist)


• 2008 is not the first time people have thought it might be cool to have a Presidential ticket consisting of a woman and a black man. (ABC News)


• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers a history lecture to a room full of college students, many of whom aren't sure who he is. (Orange County Register)


• So remember how I mentioned some famous folks were making a miniseries based on A People's History of the United States? Well, plans have changed - now it's a movie. (Rotten Tomatoes)