Not a "new" development, but Google Books recently uploaded several volumes of the first two parts of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, originally published in the late-nineteenth century. Part one alone contains almost two thousand ancient Phoenician-Punic texts with Hebrew transliterations and Latin translations. Together with the first two volumes of the Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique, which are also available on Google Books, the public now has access to an enormous collection of Phoenician-Punic texts. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these are rather uninteresting and mundane, while readers who don't have some familiarity French, Phoenician, Latin, and Hebrew will probably be quite confused. The translations themselves can sometimes be outdated and certainly don't reflect the last century of scholarship. The only modern collection of Phoenician-Punic texts with transliterations, translations, and commentary is Herbert Donner and Wolfgang Röllig's three-volume Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften, and that requires knowledge of German and Hebrew (though Karel Jongeling and Robert M. Kerr's Late Punic Epigraphy does cover Neo-Punic inscriptions in English). I have been putting together my own collection of interesting texts with transliterations in the Latin alphabet and translations in English, in order to make them more accessible to a wider audience; I hope to upload them one day on a personal website. Until then, however, you have the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum!

Cano, Gandara, Lara, Leonard, Mendoza, Nietzel, Schwab, Baldonado, Espinoza, Gomez, Kravitz, Negron, Pena, Rivera, Vera, Weinstein, Alvarado, Conde-Falcon, Copas, Duran, Erevia, Garcia, Morris, and Rodela—these 24 men were awarded the Medal of Honor yesterday. “The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest medal for valor in combat that can be awarded to members of the armed forces.” In 2002, an investigation into the service of Americans who may have been discriminated against was begun. That investigation has continued to this day, and it revealed that these men should have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Only three are alive to see their valor be recognized, but the families of the deceased will now rightly claim to have a Medal of Honor winner in their ancestry. Also, these men will be rightly recognized as displaying uncommon valor and will serve as role models for future soldiers.

Below, I have copied the brief stories of their service that are available on the US Army’s website. None of it is my original research nor is it my writing. I just wanted to present it all on one page for easy reading for those who wished to read it.