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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top Questions updated. | May 04, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: HistoryNet - Were the Donner Party Really Cannibals? | Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Top Questions added. | Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Inside the Donner Party. | Dec 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - 'What Would You Do?' Author Wants To Stop Sensationalizing The Donner Party. | Mar 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - The Donner Party. | Jan 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ScholarWorks at Georgia State University - The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Western Expansion. | Nov 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Vermont - Letter from California - A New Look at the Donner Party. | Sep 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - The Donner Party. | May 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Cannibalism: The True Story of the Donner Party. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Donner Party: Trapped in the Mountains. | Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Legends of America - The Tragic Story of the Donner Party. | Mar 24, 2021 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Jan 17, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: EyeWitness to History.com - The Tragic Fate of the Donner Party, 1847. | Dec 03, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Online Nevada Encyclopedia - Donner Party. | Feb 14, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital History - The Donner Party. | Nov 15, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 21, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Legends of America - The Donner Party Tragedy. | Jan 02, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Utah Division of State History - I Love History - 1846: The Donner-Reed Party. | Aug 03, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Donner Party. | Aug 03, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Were the Donner Party Really Cannibals? | Aug 03, 2016 | ||
| In 2010 researchers announced that there was no physical evidence of cannibalism at the Donner campsite. | Apr 20, 2010 | ||
| New article added. | Mar 10, 2009 |
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