On Friday, July 2, 2010, the National Archives Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, will open nearly 100,000 pages of Presidential records and 80 hours of video oral histories. The materials will be available in the newly reopened Nixon Library research room at 9 a.m. PDT. The Library is located at 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda, CA, 92886. Selected materials will be available online at: http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/ at 9 a.m. PDT [Noon EDT].The bulk of the newly released documents come from the White House office files of former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who served in the Nixon administration from January 1969 to December 1970. The Moynihan papers detail his role in shaping administration policy on welfare reform, population control, civil rights, the environment and drug control.
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An international team of genetic scientists has discovered the ancestors of Native Americans had at least 15 unique maternal genetic lines, many more “founding mothers” than had been expected for the Paleo-Indians who initially immigrated into the unpeopled, resource-rich Western Hemisphere 15-18,000 years ago.
Thousands of French people who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II are set to be unmasked as official reports from the era are finally made public.
An oak table made from wood which formed part of the foundations of Old London Bridge is to be auctioned.
The recent celebration of International Archives Day has turned the spotlight on the poor state of government archives in India. It serves as an urgent reminder of the imperative need to improve them. Despite a good early beginning — 1805 in the case of the Tamil Nadu Archives and 1891 in the case of National Archives of India — most government institutions have failed to keep pace with the developments in archival practices.
An exhibition at the British Library shows how historic maps project power, propaganda and art.
One of South America's largest historical archives -- 35 million pages that chronicle widespread killing, forced disappearances and torture committed by Brazilian military rulers from 1964 to 1985 -- is rotting away in an obscure government building in Brazil's capital.
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The General Director of the National Archives of India Mushirul Hasan will be traveling to Tehran in early November to visit the Iran National Library and Archives.
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A tribe of hunters who live in treehouses in Indonesia's remote Papua province has been counted for the first time in a national census, an official said on Thursday.
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If you know anyone with the last name Stup you might want to congratulate them. This year the Stup family is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the arrival of their first ancestor, Martin Stupp.
A German auction house is to sell what it says are 500 documents from the prison where Hitler was held in 1924.
The National Archives is seeking a contractor to develop a semantic knowledge base to support its UK Government Web Archive.
A 91-year-old who said she was the nurse photographed being kissed in Times Square in New York at the end of World War II has died.
Art restorers in Italy have discovered what are believed to be the oldest paintings of some of Jesus Christ's apostles.
A red wooden box that has carried the government's budget to the House of Commons since 1860 made its last official appearance on Tuesday.
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The government has announced plans to introduce a certificate of Irish heritage for up to 70 million people of Irish descent around the world who do not qualify for citizenship.
A team of Northeast Ohio researchers announced a rare and important find – the partial skeleton of a 3.6 million-year-old early human ancestor belonging to the same species as, but much older than, the iconic 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil discovered in 1974.
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The University of Tennessee will digitize 100,000 pages of Tennessee's microfilmed newspapers from 1836 to 1922.
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Ozzy Osbourne has lived a life in a haze of drugs and booze and now scientists are trying to find out just how he's done it.
Unknown images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – probably taken just before his death – have surfaced in France.
Bruce Forsyth, 82, finds out when he plays a different kind of Generation Game in the new series of BBC1 ancestry show Who Do You Think You Are? Producers say the Strictly Come Dancing host finds a letter suggesting that his great-grandad, a leading landscape gardener, had more than one wife.
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The leaders of France and Britain hailed their nations' battle-forged ties Friday, as they marked 70 years since Charles de Gaulle's stirring radio appeal for the French to resist Nazi occupation.
A postcard sent home by a Bosnian soldier in World War I has finally reached his family after 95 years, thanks to an American antique collector who delivered it personally to the man's grandson after buying it at a fair in Long Beach, California.
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Scientists have revealed that they think bones found in a German cathedral are those of one of the earliest members of the English royal family.
Italian researchers said Wednesday they were almost certain that remains found in a church in Tuscany were those of Renaissance master Caravaggio, who has gone 400 years without a proper burial.
The Austrian National Library will digitise all its public domain books from the 16th to the 19th century, making one of the world’s most important historical book collections available online.
The state of Arizona has won a nearly $315,000 federal grant to preserve and convert more than 60 years of the state's newspapers into a digital format.
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A stone to mark the final resting place of one of the city’s earliest residents lies in a chair in Kat Waldren’s living room.
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Vandals have desecrated a British World War I cemetery in northeastern France's Pas-de-Calais region.
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A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy.
Two Russian-born sisters have been reunited, 68 years after one of them was deported to Austria as a forced labourer during World War II, one of the siblings said Thursday.
Pentagon officials say it's uncertain whether the right people are buried in a number of graves at Arlington National Cemetery because of poor management and record keeping.
A perfectly preserved shoe, 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in the UK, has been found in a cave in Armenia.
A New taskforce is to be set up to safeguard the future of five historic graveyards in Scotland's capital which have been placed on an international "danger list."
That was the hope of politicians and federal officials June 2 at the construction site of the new National Personnel Records Center.
Two of Galileo's fingers, removed from his corpse by admirers in the 18th century, have gone on display in a Florence museum now named after the astronomer.
An Australian trekker has uncovered the site of a World War II battle in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, with the bodies of at least three Japanese soldiers still lying where they fell in 1942.
A treasure trove of 75 long-lost US silent movies has been unearthed in New Zealand, including an early feature film by legendary Oscar-winning director John Ford, officials said Tuesday.
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A Scot who is believed to be the last survivor of the "Great Escape" from a German prisoner of war camp has died, at the age of 97.
Estimates of the size and composition of Indonesia's booming population may remain just that despite an ongoing census, if the "discovery" of a 157-year-old woman is anything to go by.
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The Cambridge University Library plans to digitize some of the most significant rare books and manuscripts in its vast collection thanks to a gift of more than $2.1-million from a British philanthropist.
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Venezuela's government on Saturday began to take control of an archive of documents that belonged to independence hero Simon Bolivar.
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Russian authorities are preparing to remove a huge arsenal of shells from a sunken German World War II barge off the Baltic coast.
Germany is mourning the loss of three bomb disposal experts killed yesterday by a 2,000lb World War II aerial mine.
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Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin, today launched the website containing the full 1901 Census of Ireland Records at the National Archives in Bishop Street, Dublin.
The Civil War memoirs of a Union soldier who spent time in Confederate prison camps in Georgia and South Carolina has been donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.
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The Indiana Historical Society will present Midwestern Roots 2010: Family History and Genealogy Conference Aug. 6-7, at the Indianapolis Marriott East.
A film crew is in Muskegon, Michigan, this week shooting footage for an upcoming episode of a reality television series based in The Netherlands.
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