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Brooklyn Historical Society Library. After all, the movies are about a guy tracking his past.
Brooklyn Historical Society Library. After all, the movies are about a guy tracking his past.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation “is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface.” The Center is based in Los Angeles – a place which some say does not exist.  The Center veers the fjords within the fjords of information science, gag art…
“An Email Ain’t a Record?†Governor Andrew Cuomo was under the gun to explain his administration’s policy of failing to save digital correspondence. Office emails are routinely deleted and Cuomo communicates with his staff strictly using “Blackberry to Blackberry†messaging, which like the private files of J. Edgar Hoover are destroyed by protocol. The Huffington…
In June, thief of historical documents Barry Landau was sentenced to seven years in prison. The Justice Department nabbed Landau stealing documents between December 2010 and July 2011 from “the Maryland Historical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Connecticut Historical Society, the University of Vermont, the New York Historical Society and the Franklin D.…
Auctioneers in Tennessee will open the bidding this week on the signed library checkout card of 13-year old Elvis Presley. Librarians at Humes High School in Memphis had previously found the card when weeding the stacks. The book which the young King checked out was The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson For Young…
The Epoch Times recently claimed to have received an anonymous collection of documents which detail item-level corruption in the Chinese government. Names, dates and numbers are listed in the retrieved secret documents regarding government officials who are prisoners, embezzlers, or expatriates. The provenance of the papers is a mystery, but “based on the language and…
Internet Archive has posted the single extant footage of writer Mark Twain in a motion picture format. Shot by Thomas Edison in 1909, the minute-and-a-half clip shows Twain pacing the grounds of his Connecticut house, smoking a cigar, and sitting for tea with his two daughters, one of whom puts on a pretty hat. This…
The worlds of politics and genealogy recently converged when Ancestry.com completed the family tree of Barack Obama, which traces the President’s ancestors back to a man called John Punch, who shows up in the 1640s in the Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, and is claimed to be the “first African…