Images of the Day

Infantry items appear on display at Louisiana's Civil War Museum in New Orleans. Battle flags line the walls. Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns fill case after museum case, alongside homespun knapsacks, dented canteens and tiny framed pictures of women the soldiers left at home. In the back, where the body of Jefferson Davis once lay in state, the collection is dedicated to the onetime president of the Confederacy, complete with his top hat and fancy shoes. But 150 years after the Civil War, the little museum finds itself in another battle: like other Civil War museums, in both the north and the South, it is fighting to make the changes needed to keep it relevant to coming generations for which the war is not a memory.

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, right, is embraced by Pam Simon, one of those wounded, during a memorial vigil remembering the victims and survivors of the shooting that wounded Giffords, 12 others and killed six one year ago Sunday in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, spar over Political Action Committee television ads as Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, center, listens during a Republican presidential candidate debate at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, N.H., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Members of the Alachua County School Board and the Gainesville City Commission held a special meeting to discuss storm water issues at the Sivia Center, 3700 NE 53rd Avenue, Monday, October 24, 2011. This week negotiators reached a tentative agreement to resolve the dispute.

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Hundreds of sandhill cranes feed on the pastures at the Beef Teaching Unit at the University of Florida in December 2010.

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Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach speaks at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Microsoft Corp. is pulling out of this years International Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the Americas. It's joining Apple in saying it prefers to put on its own events when the time is right to show off its products. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

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