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RAIN 02/24 Weekly Update: Archives Part 1 (19)



The Times 02/04/02
Civil War battle flags rotting in old state office building
Commission hopes to preserve state treasures, but it's short on cash.
By The Associated Press
Posted on Monday, February 4, 2002
SPRINGFIELD -- One of the nation's largest collections of Civil War battle 
flags is in decay, and state officials are trying to buy some time to prevent 
them from being lost forever.
http://www.thetimesonline.com/index.pl/article?id=12016378


AP 2/07/02
College Plans to Question Historian
Thu Feb 7, 5:29 PM ET
By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press Writer
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."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020207/ap_on_re_us/historian_inquiry_1


Loudoun Times-Mirror 2/12/02
Survey to preserve Loudoun's African-American history 
by Barbara Payne
An unprecedented, countywide survey is underway in response to a call by 
African Americans to tell the story of their involvement in local history.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3254807&BRD=1897&PAG=461&;
dept_id=123365&rfi=6 



Bucks County Times-Courier 2/15/02
BCCC history teacher keeps job pending court case
Bucks County Community College will continue to employ a history teacher who
faces federal charges of selling historical items taken from his job at the 
National
Archives office in Philadelphia, a college spokeswoman said yesterday. ...
http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/news/0215aubitz.htm


AP 2/15/02
Black businesses are expecting big things from the Clinton presidential 
library
By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Black art galleries and African clothing boutiques are 
opening near the future site of Bill Clinton's presidential library in the 
expectation that lots of black tourists will come to pay homage to the man 
once called "our first black president."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020215/ap_to_po/clinton_black_tourism_3



The News & Advance 2/17/02
19th century flag to get second life
By Marcia Apperson
The News & Advance
BEDFORD - In an effort to preserve a piece of local history, volunteers and 
workers
at the Bedford City/County Museum are raising money to restore a 19th century
flag.
The royal blue, silk flag was hand painted by Samuel Hoffman in 1861 for the
Bedford Southside Dragoons.
http://www.newsadvance.com/MGB0J2CESXC.html



UPI 2/17/02
Artifacts explore American presidency
By Al Swanson
Published 2/17/2002 12:15 PM
CHICAGO, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's poker chips 
are across the room from the CBS microphone he used for his famous "fireside 
chat" radio addresses in 1935 during the Depression.
Warren G. Harding's red silk pajamas are in a glass case across from the 
yellow silk Oleg Cassini gown with overlay of crepe chiffon first lady 
Jacqueline Kennedy wore at a 1961 reception for the president of Tunisia.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-054320-3670r


Tallahasee Democrat 2/17/02
CD digs up black families' roots
By Gerald Ensley
DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER
Freedman's records allow for breakthrough in tracing history William Haley 
typed in "Alexander Haley." And quick as you please there it was: information 
on his great-great-grandfather, a one-time slave in Alabama. Not that Haley 
needed such confirmation. His family was long ago traced back to Africa by 
his father, the late author Alex Haley, whose seminal book "Roots" is 
enjoying a 25th anniversary celebration.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/2687843.htm



Waco Tribune-Herald 2/17/02
Texas A&M's quest for Bush library began in 1988
By BRIAN GAAR Tribune-Herald staff writer
Texas A&M University's quest to land the George Bush presidential library 
began
before Bush was even elected president, when a graduate floated the idea in
late 1988.
http://www.wacotrib.com/auto/feed/news/2002/02/16/1013921451.05426.6218.4509.h

tml


Memphis Commercial-Appeal 2/17/02
You are virtually there with Bush 41
By Michael Schuman
Special to The Commercial Appeal
The symbolism borders on the eerie. Posted among the family rel ics in the
George Bush Presidential Museum is a period black-and-white photo of the 
future 41st president hoisting his infant son George W. Bush on his shoulders.
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/travel/article/0,1426,MCA_532_986791,00.html



Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2/17/02
Civil War history on auction block
Collection of letters fetches $11,500 in Rabun County auction.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0202/0217auction.html



The Barre Times 2/17/02
Will the 18½-minute gap give up Nixon’s secrets?
http://timesargus.nybor.com/Story/42560.html



Washington Post 02/17/02
Monumental Ambition
Presidential libraries are history and hagiography, archival mother lodes
and gift shops pushing star-spangled dish towels
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1441-2002Feb12.html


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 02/17/02
History's purloined prizes turn up for sale on Internet
By Marylynne Pitz, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Stalking valuable documents in dusty records certainly lacks the machismo of 
poaching lions in Africa.
But in the genteel world of whitegloved archivists and poorly paid 
librarians, slick thieves make fast, big profits selling stolen rare books, 
documents and autographs in relative anonymity on the Internet.
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20020217archives4.asp



Austin American-Statesman 02/17/02
The Treasures of the Ransom Center
Welcome to Wonderland