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Check out http://empowered-teacher.com/springs for a case study - we used http://www.prosepoint.org (a Drupal distribution designed for panels-based newspaper editions, easy to learn) to create two newspapers for a Civil War unit.

One, the Guardian, was pro-slavery; the other, the Liberator, abolitionist, each populated with articles from actual papers of the period.  Students created content profiles associated with 1850s figures, and wrote "Letter to the Editor" comments in response to the paper whose view they did NOT share.

Then, they wrote counter-letters to those comments, this time on the papers that shared their views, in effect having public debates as civil war personas in a historically accurate frame (minus the fact it was wab based).  The kids LOVED it - see http://empowered-teacher.com/pages/civil-war-survey-responses

-Bram