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Critics of environmental protection laws may have forgotten how much progress has been made.
A legal scholar analyzes the unsealed warrant for the FBI’s recent search of Donald Trump’s home and the list of materials seized there. The implications for Trump are potentially grave.
There’s a high bar for a federal judge to grant a search warrant, indicating there is probable cause that Trump committed a crime by holding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
All presidents must deposit transcriptions of their public statements with the National Archives. But in the case of Donald Trump, there’s something missing.
The archives’ neglect may not be, as some as argued, another shot in the culture wars, but it is a sign of the government’s truncated temporal imagination.
Historical artefacts of every facet of Australian life - from government to migration to popular culture - is held by the National Archives. Without an urgent injection of funds, it could all be lost.
All presidents must deposit transcriptions of their public statements with the National Archives. But in the case of Donald Trump, there’s something missing.
As the US faces historic challenges to its democracy, Trump is mirroring tactics used by the former FBI director to smear his critics and consolidate power.
The dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 is our story, and we have a right to know it in full.
Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, being digitized 75 years after they were made, offer connections and lessons for Americans of today.
A new look at detailed data about Civil War skirmishes along the Mississippi River reveals another key to the Union’s victory.
The introduction of the GST got off to a wobbly start, but has since become accepted as the Australian way of paying for things.
There is a growing sense that the British authorities would rather forget their weapons testing history.
Some journalists have claimed that ‘thousands’ of documents which have gone missing at the National Archives are proof of ‘history theft’. It’s probably just old-fashioned incompetence.
National Archive files reveal how the PM offered preferential treatment to a breakaway union in a bid to weaken its rivals.
The law says official presidential records must be preserved. How do tweets figure in – particularly when they’re altered or deleted?
The National Archives of Australia today released selected federal cabinet records for 1990 and 1991. They reveal intense battles over Australia’s domestic climate targets and, above all, a palpable determination that Australia not damage its coal revenue.
From the Domesday Book to modern government papers, the National Archives’ collection of more than 11m historical government and public records is one of the world’s largest. It includes paper and parchment…
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Digital Archiving Specialist, The National Archives
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Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Researcher, Social History/Tutor in Medical Education, University of Dundee
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Marshall University
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Professor of Environmental Law, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles
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Curator of Newsfilm and Military Collections, University of South Carolina
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London