The Genealogy Tech Podcast

The problem with this is that he didn’t actually own the historical documents that he sold - he stole them from the National Archives.
Denning McTague, a hopefully former intern at the National Archives, allegedly stole about 165 Civil War documents - including the War Department’s announcement of President Lincoln’s death, and placed the items on [...]

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There’s an interesting opinion published in the New York Times regarding the (under) funding of the National Archives.
The piece, titled History Lessens, is written by David Khan, author of The Codebreakers; in it he asks:
“Why does this matter? Because the National Archives does more than display the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. From its [...]

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