Archivist stealing papers from the NY State Archives

This kind of thing just makes me sick.

A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts — documents representing “the heritage of all Americans,”according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay — to pay his household bills. Yahoo article here.

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January 29th,2008 | Category:Archives | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Stephen Colbert and the Smithsonian

Check out the first installment of Stephen’s journey to the Smithsonian here on the Comedy Central site. The video is labeled “National Treasure Pt. 1″. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who is waiting for the next installment on Monday…

January 11th,2008 | Category:Smithsonian | Comments are closed

“Blogging”from the trenches:experiences of a British WWI Soldier

Bill Lamin,  grandson of Pvt. Harry Lamin,has been posting his grandfather’s war letters in “real time”on a blog,simulating the experience that the family had while waiting for updates from Harry during WWI.  I happened to read an article about this on the BBC website (this Telegraph article has more details).

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January 11th,2008 | Category:advocacy,History | Comments are closed