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RAIN 0210 Weekly Update: Archives Part 2 (14) Giuliani, Bellesiles and others



There are 14 stories in this posting.

AP 02/06/02
Historians Want Giuliani Records
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020206/ap_on_re_us/brf_giuliani_records_4

NEW YORK - Historians and archivists said they'll petition Mayor Michael
Bloomberg to rethink an agreement allowing a private group to store former
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's records.
"We should not be asked to trust any private individual," historian Mike
Wallace said Tuesday. "It should remain in public hands."


New York Daily News 02/06/02
Won't Keep My Papers Private: Rudy
http://nydailynews.com/2002-02-06/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-140499.asp

By JOANNE WASSERMAN
Daily News Staff Writer
Seeking to end a growing controversy, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani offered yesterday to relinquish the right to withhold personal documents from his City Hall papers.


New York Daily News 02/06/02
Protests Set Over Rudy's Papers
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-nypap062577285feb06.story?coll=ny%2Dnews%2Dprint

By Curtis L. Taylor
A group of historians and archivists plan to demonstrate on the steps of City Hall today to protest a last-minute deal allowing a private organization to store the papers of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.



New York Times 02/06/02
Giuliani Defends Removing Papers From City Control
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/nyregion/06RUDY.html

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday defended the removal of his mayoral papers from the custody of the city's Department of Records and Information Services and said private archivists would catalog the documents according to professional standards without influence from him, his aides or his supporters.



New York Daily News 02/07/02
Historians Protest Transfer Of Records
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-nyrec072578623feb07.story?coll=ny%2Dnews%2Dprint

By Robert Polner
Rudolph Giuliani's quiet transfer of official papers, audiocassettes and keepsakes of his eight years as mayor drew an outcry from more than 1,000 historians and archivists
yesterday.
Michael Wallace, a Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, submitted to City Hall an Internet petition urging Mayor Michael Bloomberg to take back the historical record Giuliani put under his own control.


New York Times 02/07/02
Archivists Demand That City Take Back Giuliani's Papers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/nyregion/07RUDY.html

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
A group of archivists and historians yesterday angrily denounced the transfer of Rudolph W. Giuliani's mayoral papers out of city custody and said that they intended to hold Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg responsible for retrieving the documents, which are being stored at a warehouse in Queens.
The group also held out the possibility of a lawsuit or other legal action should Mr. Bloomberg and his corporation counsel, Michael A. Cardozo, fail to address their concerns.


New York Times 02/07/02
So Long, and See You in the Papers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/nyregion/07MATT.html

By JOYCE PURNICK
THE pardon bargains. The stadium deals. And now the case of the purloined papers.
Prominent politicians on the brink of losing their power do have this way of reverting to type, undermining their popularity. Maybe they need a new exit strategy. Or maybe it's just fine this way, because people get realistic insight into officials they are tempted to sanctify, politicians come down to earth, and everyone is reminded that too much applause is a really bad idea.



Christian Science Monitor 02/08/02
Scholarly dust-up over Giuliani's archives
Historians protest the former mayor's move to catalog his records privately. Another sign of government and corporate secrecy?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0208/p04s01-uspo.html

By Alexandra Marks
HOw will history judge Rudolph Giuliani? Right now, if his archives are any indication, only Rudy knows.
As the former mayor left New York City Hall at the end of December, he had 2,000 boxes of papers, pictures, mementoes, and tapes carted away to a private, secure location in Queens known as the "Fortress."


Associated Press 02/07/02
College Plans to Question Historian
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020207/ap_on_re_us/historian_inquiry_1

By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) - A disputed, prize-winning book about the role of guns in the United States will undergo a formal inquiry from Emory University, where author Michael Bellesiles is a professor of history.
In a statement released this week, Emory official Robert A. Paul said that the Atlanta-based school has initiated a process for "addressing allegations of misconduct in research."


Richmond Times Dispatch 02/08/02
Journal on firing line
Gun-ownership study causes stir
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGB2Q8IFFXC.html

BY ANDREW PETKOFSKY
WILLIAMSBURG - Ann Gross' work life, full of facts and footnotes and phone calls from scholars, has lately shifted to include urgent questions from Playboy magazine.
"That's not something we usually deal with," Gross said. "It's been a different experience than usual."
Gross is managing editor of The William and Mary Quarterly, a well-regarded journal
for early American historians that lately has become the firing line in a shootout over
America's love affair with firearms.



AP 02/06/02
Nazi Documents Stun Scientist Bohr
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020207/ap_on_re_eu/denmark_nazi_documents_3

By JAN M. OLSEN
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - World War II-era scientist Niels Bohr said he was shocked to learn from colleague Werner Heisenberg that Germany was "vigorously in a race to be the first with atomic weapons," according to a decades-old letter released Wednesday.
The three-page letter by Bohr — the Danish scientist who later helped make the first A-bomb for the United States — confirmed that Heisenberg had revealed the existence of the nuclear program to Bohr and expressed no doubts about its success during a meeting in 1941.


New York Times 02/07/02
New Twist on Physicist's Role in Nazi Bomb
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/science/07BOMB.html

By JAMES GLANZ
The leader of Hitler's atomic bomb program, Werner Heisenberg, portrayed himself after
World War II as a kind of scientific resistance hero who sabotaged Hitler's efforts to build a nuclear weapon.
But in a series of letters and other documents made public yesterday, his friend and onetime mentor, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, said that is not so.


San Francisco Chronicle 02/07/02
Mark Twain
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/07/MNTWAIN.TMP&nl=top

Katherine Seligman
In the cramped and cluttered office where he presides over the world's largest Mark Twain archive, Robert Hirst has been waiting for the phone to ring.
The Mark Twain Project at the University of California at Berkeley's Bancroft Library includes 11,000 letters by Samuel Clemens (known to most as Mark Twain) and his family, his personal Bible, childhood photos, unpublished manuscripts and about 50 notebooks he
kept between 1855 and his death in 1910. What it doesn't have is much money.



The Daily Ardmoreite 02/07/02
Old photos arouse curiosity

By Micah Holmes
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but Karin Morrison would like to know just what those words are.
Karin recently found some mystery photos while going through a neighboring property she purchased near Healdton.
"I am really not sure where they came from or even what the pictures are of," Morrison said. "But the more I look at them, the more curious I am about their origins."


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va