The Trump vengeance tour is making a stop at the National Archives. Here is ABC News: There have been extensive discussions at the White House about installing Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the acting director of the National Archives, […]
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The Author’s Corner with Yael Sternhell
Yael Sternhell is Professor in the Department of History and Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. This interview is based on her new book, War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War […]
What to expect in the new JFK files
New files will release today. Here is Philip Shenon, the author of a book on the JFK assassination, at Politico: For this nation’s army of conspiracy theorists, few long-secret government documents have whipped up so much suspicion in the 59 […]
Did George H.W. Bush take presidential documents to a bowling alley and Chinese restaurant?
Here’s the former president: And here’s the National Archives: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, assumed physical and legal custody of the Presidential records from the administrations of Barack Obama, George W. […]
Why presidents can’t keep their documents
There is a reason why the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last week. Here is a nice explainer from National Public Radio: For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them […]
How the National Archives and Records Administration’s “Notice 2022-15” will impact presidential history
Tim Naftali, the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and a professor at NYU, explains: About a month ago, the National Archives and Records Administration signaled in a notice to Congress that it was effectively renouncing […]
1950 census data is about to be released
On Friday (tomorrow) to be exact. Here is Michael Ruane at The Washington Post: On April 1, 1950, an army of 140,000 census enumerators, equipped with fountain pens and government forms, started fanning out across the country to paint a […]
The American Historical Association condemns Trump’s violation of the Presidential Records Act
From the AHA website: The American Historical Association condemns in the strongest terms former President Donald J. Trump’s reported extensive and repeated violations of the Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978. The PRA requires that: Through the implementation of records […]
Could Trump be prosecuted for destroying documents?
Chris Truax, a lawyer and CEO of CertifiedVoter.com, believes it is possible. Here is a taste of his piece at The Bulwark: Funnily enough, the activity that puts Donald Trump in the greatest legal danger is also the most absurd: […]
The latest from Archivegate
It turns out that a box of stuff Trump took to Mar-a-Lago after his presidency contained classified material. Here is Reid J. Epstein and Michael S. Schmidt’s reporting at The New York Times: The National Archives and Records Administration discovered […]
The National Archives confirms that Trump ripped-up presidential documents
After receiving over 700 pages of documents from the National Archives, the House January 6th Committee noticed that some of the papers seemed to have been ripped-up and reconstructed using tape. The National Archives has confirmed that this is indeed […]
Trump was planning to use the military to seize voting machines following the 2020 election
Politico got access to some of the materials from the National Archives that were recently turned over to the January 6, 2021 House of Representative select committee. Among the papers was a Trump executive order directing the Department of Defense […]
The House select committee on January 6th would do well to have some historians on its staff
Earlier this week the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s request to stop the January 6th committee from obtaining access to White House records related to the insurrection. The National Archives has sent the material to the House and the committee […]
The National Archives are still waiting for some of Trump’s rally speeches
One would think that Donald Trump, with all his bombast and appeals to his own greatness, would rush to get his rally speeches into the National Archives. His presidency was YUUUUUGE. Wouldn’t he want future historians to have a complete […]