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The Weekly Standard 5/17/02
Setting the Missing Records Straight
The continuing misadventures of award-winning author Michael Bellesiles.
by David Skinner
05/17/2002 12:00:00 AM
FOR THE SECOND TIME NOW, Michael Bellesiles, a historian at Emory University=
,=20
is
being accused of having relied on missing or nonexistent records for evidenc=
e=20
in his
Bancroft prize-winning book "Arming America." And, for the second time,=20
Bellesiles's
protestations and explanations have failed to vindicate his book, which=20
sought to refute the "myth" of widespread gun ownership in antebellum=20
America. Elementary fact checking has destroyed the credibility of=20
Bellesiles's story of how he discovered various 18th century Vermont court=20
records others say don't exist.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/251ppcwn.a=
sp



Sacramento Bee 5/16/02
Virtual library gathers world's oldest texts on Web
By ANDREW BRIDGES
AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anyone who has ever scrambled to gather receipts during=20
tax season can appreciate the task Robert Englund has undertaken.
Over the next year or two, the University of California, Los Angeles,=20
professor hopes to finish gathering, cataloging and photographing thousands=20
of documents, many of an intimate financial nature, which he will then post=20
on the Web.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/v-print/story/2752344p-3513399c.html



New York Times 5/17/02
Your Stolen Art? I Threw It Away, Dear
By ALAN RIDING
PARIS, May 16 =E2=80=94 For years St=C3=A9phane Breitwieser, a youthful-look=
ing Frenchman,=20
traveled through Europe working as a waiter, and in his off hours visited=20
out-of-the-way museums where he looked for opportunities to walk off with=20
what he liked. He stashed stolen oil paintings, rare musical instruments and=
=20
other art objects in his private collection in his mother's home in Mulhouse=
,=20
in eastern France, investigators said.
Last November his luck ran out at a museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, and he=20
was arrested on charges of stealing a bugle. On learning of the arrest, the=20
police said, his mother chopped up the oil paintings, which were left for=20
trash collection, and dumped other art objects in a canal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/arts/design/17DEST.html



National Post 5/18/02
How Ottawa's history took a wrong turn
The Citizen reveals how an Indian burying ground 'about a halfmile
below the mighty cataract of the Chaudi=C3=A8re' was
discovered and then lost for a century -- all because
generations of scholars overlooked a simple newspaper story.
It's equal parts tragedy, farce and epic.
http://www.canada.com/toronto/news/story.asp?id=3D{8508ABDB-20DC-4A83-A010-F=
FEEB

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The Telegram 5/19/02
Archivist studying Newfoundland Jewish history
By JEAN EDWARDS STACEY
Robin McGrath is a native Newfoundlander who grew up Catholic and converted=20
to Judaism as a young woman, a decision based in part on her belief that=20
Judaism is at the root of Christianity. Where she found Catholicism to be a=20
religion based on acceptance and never asking questions, her perception of=20
Judaism was and is that it is a faith
where everything is always questioned.
http://www.thetelegram.com/topstories/news/story.asp?id=3D51175&ln=3Dln



Washington Post 5/19/02
Andy Warhol, Boxing Champ
The Pop Artist Knew His Stuff -- and Kept It. Big Time.
By Peter Carlson
PITTSBURGH
Ahuge Great Dane guards Andy Warhol's archives. He's not much of a watchdog=20
-- he's
been dead and stuffed for at least 75 years -- but that's okay because the=20
archives are filled mostly with junk.
On eight long metal shelves in an office on the third floor of the Andy=20
Warhol Museum, archivists have stored 136 identical cardboard boxes that=20
Warhol crammed with the flotsam and jetsam of his life.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33925-2002May17.html




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<HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"FIXED" FACE=3D"=
Courier New" LANG=3D"0">Christian Science Monitor 5/10/02
<BR>An impressive interactive memorial to a folk legend.
<BR>http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0510/p25s01-stin.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>BBC News 5/11/02
<BR>Kabul's radio treasure trove
<BR>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid=
_1979000/1979482.stm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Guardian 5/11/02
<BR>Poet's muse saved for nation
<BR>http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,713613,00.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 5/12/02
<BR>'The Bondwoman's Narrative': An 1850's Account of
<BR>Slave Life
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/0...12BAYLT.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>San Francisco Chronicle 5/12/02
<BR>Inspiring early cinema
<BR>DVD gives a glimpse of turn-of-the-century life
<BR>URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=3D/chronicle/archive/20=
02/05/12/PK215927.DTL
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Evening Star 5/12/02
<BR>History weeks opens doors - for longer
<BR>http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/news/New...ews&amp;ItemId=3DIPED08+=
May+2002+13%3A36%3A14%3A930
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Newsday 5/12/02
<BR>Getting Ready For the Worst
<BR>Feds detail lines of succession
<BR>http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-usline122703400may12.story
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Herald-Tribune 5/12/02
<BR>Archivist Dorothy Korwek savors the photos and files that
<BR>hold the well-planned story of Venice.
<BR>http://www.heraldtribune.com/frontpage/story.cfm?ID=3D68228
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Post 5/12/02
<BR>MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
<BR>By LEONARD GREENE
<BR>May 12, 2002 -- The recent discovery of a historic cache of documents wr=
itten by slain civil rights leader Malcolm X has now become a cross-country=20=
tug-of-war laden with mystery and intrigue.
<BR>http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/47687.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Newsday 5/12/02
<BR>Museum cracks Andy Warhol ``time capsules''
<BR>By TODD SPANGLER
<BR>Associated Press Writer
<BR>May 12, 2002, 11:05 AM EDT
<BR>PITTSBURGH -- If you think Andy Warhol's art celebrated the seemingly ba=
nal, you should just get a look at the stuff he decided to keep for posterit=
y.
<BR>The man was an inveterate pack rat.
<BR>Memos and letters. Receipts. Junk mail and cigarette packs. In cardboard=
 boxes stuffed full of clutter by the late Pop Art icon and his workers, the=
 flotsam of life _ including cheap religious portraits, in-flight menus and=20=
boxing posters _ mingles with items like a pair of Clark Gable's shoes and W=
arhol's own hand-crafted artwork.
<BR>One contained a gift from Salvador Dali, wax paper palettes the painter=20=
had used. Another featured a Jean Harlow dress, shoved inside a manila envel=
ope. A third had rancid pizza dough inside, crawling with bugs.
<BR>http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--warholsboxes0512may12.s=
tory
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Baltimore Sun 5/13/02
<BR>Historians sign on to petition Bryn Mawr on quashed book
<BR>140 unite on principle, ask city girls school to allow publication
<BR>By Mike Bowler
<BR>Sun Staff
<BR>Originally published May 13, 2002
<BR>An international cross-section of historians has rallied to support a fe=
llow
<BR>scholar stunned when publication of her book on Bryn Mawr School was
<BR>blocked by the school after she sold the manuscript to the Johns Hopkins
<BR>University Press.
<BR>A petition bearing the names of more than 140 historians -- many of them=
 well
<BR>known in their fields -- will be delivered in electronic and paper forms=
 to the
<BR>private North Baltimore girls school today with a message:
<BR>http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.md.brynmawr13may13.story
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>AP 5/13/02
<BR>Sale of Henry VIII Papers Barred
<BR>Mon May 13, 3:17 PM ET
<BR>By SUE LEEMAN, Associated Press Writer
<BR>LONDON (AP) - More than four centuries later, King Henry VIII's divorce=20=
is still causing problems. The government is fighting to stop a unique docum=
ent from the much-married monarch's first and most celebrated divorce from b=
eing sold overseas.
<BR>Arts Minister Baroness Blackstone on Monday barred the foreign sale of a=
 treatise that is credited with helping bolster arguments by Henry that he w=
as entitled to ditch Catherine of Aragon in favor of Anne Boleyn, the second=
 of his six wives.
<BR>http://story.news.yahoo.com/n...ap_on_re_eu/britain_henry_viii_6&amp;pri=
nter=3D1
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Business Journal of Portland 5/13/02
<BR>OSU to help create Northwest Digital Archives
<BR>Oregon State University in Corvallis has received a grant of $350,000 fr=
om the National Endowment for the Humanities to coordinate a project that wi=
ll create an online catalog of information about archival collections at 13=20=
different Northwest institutions.
<BR>The project is designed to help scholars, students, policy-makers, journ=
alists and others have better understanding of, and access to, historical in=
formation about the Northwest.
<BR>http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/05/13/daily9.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>AP 5/15/02
<BR>Daley Papers to Be Donated to School
<BR>Wed May 15, 7:01 PM ET
<BR>By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
<BR>CHICAGO (AP) - The late Mayor Richard J. Daley's children celebrated his=
 100th birthday Wednesday by promising to hand over papers from his years as=
 a political powerhouse to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
<BR>The papers, say university officials, will include correspondence, photo=
graphs, official documents, speeches and newspaper clippings.
<BR>Michael Daley said his father kept notes and what he called a "diary" of=
 certain events. But exactly what the university will get remains unclear.
<BR>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&amp;u=3D/ap/20020515/ap_on=
_re_us/daley_s_papers_1
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>AP 5/15/02
<BR>Questionable Documents Out of Auction
<BR>Wed May 15,10:29 AM ET
<BR>Manuscripts purported to be by the first American-born composer =E2=80=
=94 now thought to be the handiwork of an artful forger =E2=80=94 have been=20=
withdrawn from auction.
<BR>The cache, touted as the work of Declaration of Independence signer Fran=
cis Hopkinson when it turned up in storage this spring, was believed to have=
 included previously unknown songs and verses, along with the score of "The=20=
Temple of Minerva," considered the first American opera.
<BR>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&amp;u=3D/ap/20020515/ap_on=
_en_ot/composer_auction_1
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 5/16/02
<BR>Rescue Efforts Lift Poets' Voices
<BR>From Fraying Tapes
<BR>By STEPHEN KINZER
<BR>AN FRANCISCO =E2=80=94 The melodic voice of Marianne Moore echoed from a=
 reel-to-reel tape recorder at the American Poetry Archives here on a recent=
 morning. She was reading her poems to an enthusiastic audience in 1957, and=
 the tape offered delights quite different from those that come from reading=
 a printed page.
<BR>Before reciting a poem called "Light Is Speech" Moore explained that it=20=
was inspired by a legend about a bandit and a bag of gold. She thanked her a=
udience for applause that was "very gratifying, consoling," and then told ab=
out an argument she had with Richard Wilbur over the use of hyphens in poetr=
y. Several times she interrupted her reading to try out different words or p=
hrases, explaining at one point, "I'm rewriting this as I read it."
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/books/16ARTS.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Weekly Standard 5/17/02
<BR>Setting the Missing Records Straight
<BR>The continuing misadventures of award-winning author Michael Bellesiles.
<BR>by David Skinner
<BR>05/17/2002 12:00:00 AM
<BR>FOR THE SECOND TIME NOW, Michael Bellesiles, a historian at Emory Univer=
sity, is
<BR>being accused of having relied on missing or nonexistent records for evi=
dence in his
<BR>Bancroft prize-winning book "Arming America." And, for the second time,=20=
Bellesiles's
<BR>protestations and explanations have failed to vindicate his book, which=20=
sought to refute the "myth" of widespread gun ownership in antebellum Americ=
a. Elementary fact checking has destroyed the credibility of Bellesiles's st=
ory of how he discovered various 18th century Vermont court records others s=
ay don't exist.
<BR>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/251ppc=
wn.asp
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Sacramento Bee 5/16/02
<BR>Virtual library gathers world's oldest texts on Web
<BR>By ANDREW BRIDGES
<BR>AP Science Writer
<BR>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anyone who has ever scrambled to gather receipts duri=
ng tax season can appreciate the task Robert Englund has undertaken.
<BR>Over the next year or two, the University of California, Los Angeles, pr=
ofessor hopes to finish gathering, cataloging and photographing thousands of=
 documents, many of an intimate financial nature, which he will then post on=
 the Web.
<BR>http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/v-print/story/2752344p-3513399c.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 5/17/02
<BR>Your Stolen Art? I Threw It Away, Dear
<BR>By ALAN RIDING
<BR>PARIS, May 16 =E2=80=94 For years St=C3=A9phane Breitwieser, a youthful-=
looking Frenchman, traveled through Europe working as a waiter, and in his o=
ff hours visited out-of-the-way museums where he looked for opportunities to=
 walk off with what he liked. He stashed stolen oil paintings, rare musical=20=
instruments and other art objects in his private collection in his mother's=20=
home in Mulhouse, in eastern France, investigators said.
<BR>Last November his luck ran out at a museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, and=20=
he was arrested on charges of stealing a bugle. On learning of the arrest, t=
he police said, his mother chopped up the oil paintings, which were left for=
 trash collection, and dumped other art objects in a canal.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/arts/design/17DEST.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>National Post 5/18/02
<BR>How Ottawa's history took a wrong turn
<BR>The Citizen reveals how an Indian burying ground 'about a halfmile
<BR>below the mighty cataract of the Chaudi=C3=A8re' was
<BR>discovered and then lost for a century -- all because
<BR>generations of scholars overlooked a simple newspaper story.
<BR>It's equal parts tragedy, farce and epic.
<BR>http://www.canada.com/toronto/news/story.asp?id=3D{8508ABDB-20DC-4A83-A0=
10-FFEEB02FFAB5}
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Telegram 5/19/02
<BR>Archivist studying Newfoundland Jewish history
<BR>By JEAN EDWARDS STACEY
<BR>Robin McGrath is a native Newfoundlander who grew up Catholic and conver=
ted to Judaism as a young woman, a decision based in part on her belief that=
 Judaism is at the root of Christianity. Where she found Catholicism to be a=
 religion based on acceptance and never asking questions, her perception of=20=
Judaism was and is that it is a faith
<BR>where everything is always questioned.
<BR>http://www.thetelegram.com/topstories/news/story.asp?id=3D51175&amp;ln=
=3Dln
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Washington Post 5/19/02
<BR>Andy Warhol, Boxing Champ
<BR>The Pop Artist Knew His Stuff -- and Kept It. Big Time.
<BR>By Peter Carlson
<BR>PITTSBURGH
<BR>Ahuge Great Dane guards Andy Warhol's archives. He's not much of a watch=
dog -- he's
<BR>been dead and stuffed for at least 75 years -- but that's okay because t=
he archives are filled mostly with junk.
<BR>On eight long metal shelves in an office on the third floor of the Andy=20=
Warhol Museum, archivists have stored 136 identical cardboard boxes that War=
hol crammed with the flotsam and jetsam of his life.
<BR>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33925-2002May17.html
<BR>
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