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9 mars 2014

WHAT KIND OF STOLEN ARCHIVES ?

WHAT KIND OF STOLEN ARCHIVES ?
The American history doesn’t go back to the crusades or feudality. But it is built on bonding and unifying events and charismatic leaders on which American people can rely to claim its identity. Therefore it makes sense that the first historical records...
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27 février 2014

AMERICAN LAWS AGAINST THEFT OF PUBLIC RECORDS

As a federal country, the United States have established laws preventing or prosecuting records thefts. In the 18 United States Code, there is a part on concealment, removal or mutilation of records. It says that anyone who tries or succeeds in damaging...
10 janvier 2014

Digital records and data : a burning issue

In the following videos from BBC News is discussed an issue that has got more and more serious in recent years : the stealing of digital records. Thanks to the development of digital technologies, more and more records are nowadays numerical, and thus...
13 mars 2014

Moscow Archives : a story about stolen memory

http://journaldunarchiviste.fr/2013/06/24/la-memoire-spoliee-fonds-de-moscou/ I decided to translate this French article into English about Moscow archives for I couldn't find any similar article originally written in this language, and for it is a subject...
9 mars 2014

SANDY BURGER'S ARCHIVES THEFT

Chris Field on Sandy Burger's Archives Theft This video is about the outrageous theft and destruction of classified records from the National Archives and the reactions of officials. As if stealing records was not wrong enough, it was done by a public...
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9 mars 2014

PERSONAL ORAL PRODUCTION

PERSONAL ORAL PRODUCTION This blog is about stolen archives. We are two students working on that topic. For my part I have decided talk about stolen archives in the United States. There is a lot to say. My first post is about the American laws that stand...
11 mars 2014

Stealing archives : a way to rewrite history

http://cphpost.dk/news/nazi-sympathisers-try-to-rewrite-history-by-stealing-it.3149.html In 2012, in the last days of October, Danish authorities arrested and put in custody two men suspected of the theft of Danish public archives from the World War II...
17 octobre 2013

This common project will deal with a very

This common project will deal with a very interesting subject, archives and records, digital or not, that were stolen from their true owners, whether it's a country or an individual and how they can be given back. In history, numerous events that happened,...
9 mars 2014

FBI, NATIONAL ARCHIVES RETURN TO RIGHTFUL OWNERS 10,000 STOLEN HISTORICAL US DOCUMENTS

FBI, National Archives return to rightful owners 10,000 stolen historical US documents Published May 14, 2013 BALTIMORE – FBI and National Archive officials are returning to their rightful owners more than 10,000 important historical documents seized...
9 mars 2014

MISSING LINCOLN DOCUMENTS RETURNED TO NATIONAL ARCHIVES

TRANSCRIPTION: This document is a letter to his Excellency, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, written in Hagerstown, Maryland, November 6, 1862. Signed by one, two, three surgeons, asking President Lincoln to appoint a chaplain. My name...
9 décembre 2014

Spoils of war returned : U.S. restitution of nazi-looted cultural treasures to the USSR

Patricia Grimsted Kennedy is an American historian whose studies are focused on the stealing and restitution of cultural materials which occured during and after the Second World War. She is also a leading authority on the archives from the former USSR...
10 décembre 2014

Iraq gives Kuwait's archives back

Here is a translation of the following article published in october 2002, which deals with the restitution of Kuwaiti archives by Iraqi authorities : http://www.albawaba.com/news/iraq-returns-looted-archives-kuwait " Cinq camions transportant des archives...
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