Over the years, Yang used his access to collect materials from restricted archives detailing the famine.
As a result, across Russia, many archives detailing killings, persecution and other such acts committed by the Soviet authorities have become increasingly off limits.
In 2000, while researching the 200th anniversary of the building of the White House and the Capitol for a news feature, Mr. Hotaling found hundreds of monthly payment stubs in Treasury Department archives detailing the work of African-American slave laborers in erecting both buildings.
But today, for the first time, the French government will open up a trove of archives detailing the horrors of Vel d'Hiv, which include stories of hundreds of children who were rounded up, separated from their parents and sent to death camps.
Colonial archives detailing the administrative trips to undertake tax censuses of Tuareg, Maure and Peul mobile pastoralists in Mali commonly describe administrators' perceptions of the devious ways used by nomads to disappear over the dune when the administrators arrive and French administrators' perpetual suspicions that both people and livestock had been concealed (Randall 2009).
"I think it is the most extraordinary American archive, detailing the life of the country and the continent".
The Redgrave archive, detailing five generations of Britain's most colourful acting dynasty, has been preserved for the nation.
In thousands of pages, this highly classified archive detailed Washington's legacy of deceit and evasion as it stumbled through an unpopular war.
Before his death in 2008, Hughes gave an interview to the Boston College-Belfast Project history archive detailing his life in the IRA.
The report was largely spurred by the discovery of a secret diocesan archive detailing administrative action around sex abuse, uncovered in August through a search warrant.
