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Below are previous editions of the Wise Guide, cataloged each month when the new edition is published.

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002


December collage

December 2003
A Library Mission to Iraq . . . She Sat Down for What She Believed . . . This Bear Wants to Sell You Something . . . Where Were You On Sept. 11 . . . The Days After The Days of Infamy . . . Become A Supreme Scavenger . . . Tell Me A Story


November collage

November 2003
Why Do Toes Wrinkle in the Bath? . . . Victorians In Egypt . . . A Lifetime of Achievement . . . Name That Brand! . . . She's the 'Mother of Our Country' . . . Is Winning the Nobel Prize A Crime? . . . He Sailed The Half Moon


October collage

October 2003
One Day Her Prince Did Come . . . It Ended the Pony Express . . . Zoom In On The National Zoo . . . They Helped Fill Up the 'Canvas' . . . Shakespeare and Genius . . . Icarus Unbound . . . What Do Halloween and Houdini Have In Common?


September collage

September 2003
He Sowed The Grapes of Wrath . . . What's a Water Baby? . . . Remembering 9/11 . . . The Write Stuff! . . . They're B-A-A-A-A-CK! . . . Labor and Luck . . . The Whole World in Your Hands


August collage

August 2003
American Women...A Guide to Their History . . . The Stars and Stripes In Print . . . He Was the 'Master of the Senate' . . . "Go West, Young Men!" . . . How Did America Get Its Name?" . . . You've Heard of Timbuktu, But Do You Know Where It Is? . . . Dynamite Presidents!


July collage

July 2003
How THOMAS Works . . . Game, Set, Match! The First African American To Win Wimbledon . . . He Had The World's Most Famous Couch . . . "Are You Doing All You Can?" . . . Who Was "Lady Lindy?" . . . This Land Is Your Land! . . . Turning Point of the Civil War . . . Gettysburg


June collage

June 2003
She works hard for the money ... Honor your father ... Marching to a new tune ... How many Ninas can you find? ... Summer's here! ... Become a dancing fool! ... War and remembrance


May collage

May 2003
Sneeze on film ... remembering sacrifice on Memorial Day ... Harley-Davidson at 100 ... Mother's Day... National Book Festival ... the immigrant experience... Herblock cartoons


April collage

April 2003
Billie Holiday and her dog ... the contents of Abraham Lincoln's pockets ... the goddess of the Library ... April Fool's Day ... baseball cards ... Portals to the World ... digital preservation


March collage

March 2003
Printmaker Robert Blackburn ... ramps and molly moochers ... Lamb Day ... kite flying ... the Tuskegee Airmen ... Wonder Woman for President ... James Madison


February collage

February 2003
Slavery, a peculiar institution ... the Library's maps ... "Thrilling Love" ... National Film Registry ... Blondie gets married ... famous first ladies ... virtual reference shelf


January collage

January 2003
Football: "organized mayhem" ... Frank Lloyd Wright ... the shortest presidential term ... Siberia ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... the American Revolution ... the coat of arms of Columbus