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Reports that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has installed additional security measures to prevent the recurrence of removal of classified documents. Details of the security measures specified through the March 31, 2004, policy announcement; Background on the incident involving Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who took copies of classified documents from a reading room in 2003.

The article concerns a dispute over scholarly access to the papers of U.S. President George W. Bush. An executive order issued by Bush in 2001 restricted availability of presidential papers by asserting a sitting president's power to delay their release indefinitely. The order also requires a president's specific permission to release a document instead of an automatic 30-day release. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is scheduled to discuss a bill overturning Bush's order.

The article presents information about the 1973 political strategy document of Karl Rove, political advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush. Rove's paper was found among the 78,000-page documents of the administration of former President Richard M. Nixon. In his nine-page memorandum to Anne Armstrong, then advisor to Nixon, Rove talked about his strategy to strengthen the Republican Party. The Nixon documents were released in the second week of July 2007.

Reports that a group of archivists and historians in New York City have angrily denounced the transfer of former city mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's mayoral papers out of city custody.

Reports on the query of the commission investigating the September 11 attacks on why the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush had blocked classified foreign policy and counter-terrorism documents from the White House files of former president Bill Clinton from being turned over to the investigators. Confirmation of the White House regarding the issue; Response to the request of the commission; Investigation of intelligence and law enforcement failures.

Reports on the release of a set of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act regarding John Kerry's history with the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Purpose of the raw files composed of informer's tips, newspaper clips and FBI surveillance reports to scrutinize the purpose and members of the activist group in 1971; Recognition of Kerry's position as the spokesman for Vietnam; Revelation of Kerry's participation in a meeting discussing the killing of U.S. politicians supporting the Vietnam War.

Provides information on a document at the archives of the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in which the university's administration methodically harassed a number of young men for being gay.

Reports the purchase of the literary archives of author Susan Sontag by the University of California Library in Los Angeles, California.

Focuses on documents from the research group National Security Archive which revealed that several United States officials have knowledge on the genocide in Rwanda in early 1994.

Reports that the Archivist John W. Carlin has unveil a model of chemicals as part of the display system to be installed by the Year 2003 in the United States. Restoration of the National Archives and Records Administration Building; Arrangement plans for the display system; Conservation and examination of documents.

Reports that a change in the law is sending papers and tapes of former President Richard M. Nixon in the Nixon library in the United States.

Presents the historical documents and papers that were discovered during renovation at the Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill, New York. Rules for the religious congregation's Sunday school; Financial ledgers; Meeting minutes.

WASHINGTON -- As archivists prepare to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy's papers at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, his family members are having second thoughts about where they should be housed and are considering moving them elsewhere because they believe that the presidential library has not done enough to honor the younger brother's legacy. Many of the papers, dealing with Cuba, Vietnam and civil rights, are classified as secret or top secret. There are also 2,300 other boxes covering every stage of Robert Kennedy's life, including his years as a United States senator and attorney general, most of which have already been opened for research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Carmen Artache and her husband, Balmes Rosa, bought a 200-year-old house in Bloomville, N.Y., in the Catskills, they set about erasing the many renovations of previous owners. In the process of revealing the original structure, they discovered a closet hidden behind a wall, and a cache of old papers inside. The papers, more than 200 letters, notices, articles and other documents, belonged to S. B. Champion, the founder and editor of The Bloomville Mirror, a weekly newspaper published from 1851 to 1871. Almost all the documents, which were in a canvas bag, were from the Civil War years, and included everything from a local boy's Army enlistment paper (Champion notarized it), to a love poem written by a soldier to his Mary back home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Opinion. Discusses projects initiated in the United States, to document the lives and writings of the nation's Founding Fathers. Details on the Jefferson Papers project at Princeton University which began in 1944, for the papers of Thomas Jefferson; Information on the George Washington project at the University of Virginia; Details on the Benjamin Franklin Papers project; Proposed cuts in the funds for these projects.

Looks at how conservators at the State Archives in Albany, New York are painstakingly working to preserve Revolutionary War-era papers. Overview of the conservators work; Discussion of the various material at the archive, which includes artillery plans related to the war and correspondences related to the work of Benedict Arnold.

A trove of historic archive documents dating from Catherine the Great that were stolen after the Soviet breakup were returned to Russia on Friday by the United States. The 21 documents include decrees issued by Czar Nicholas II and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, a top-secret paper on the reconstruction of Russian military airfields in the 1930s, and Catherine the Great's decree to divide command of forces in Poland during the 18th-century partitions of the country. Russian officials alerted Washington about the documents when they appeared on Web sites of American auction houses. United States officials seized them between April and November, but no one has been charged with the theft, a United States Immigration and Customs EnforcementImmigration official said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on a public exhibition of the notebooks and other papers of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at Sotheby's auction house, New York City. Highlights of the exhibit; Private sale of the collection on behalf of the King estate; Documents, including a diary King kept while jailed for civil disobedience and an early draft of the 'I Have a Dream' speech; View that the collection is controversial; Estimated worth; Comments of King's widow, Coretta Scott King, David N. Redden, a vice chairman of Sotheby's, and historians; Issue of public access.

Focuses on the papers of Malcolm X that were to be sold at auction in March 2002, but are to be made available to scholars at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center in Harlem, under an agreement between his family and the center. Background on the documents, which have yet to be assessed by scholars; Comments of the center's director, Howard Dodson; Sample items, including photographs and a diary; Significance of Malcolm X's diaries and drafts of speeches.