This past September, David Culver, a student in the course “Hispanic Studies 498 Internship: Research in the National Security Archive” published a documentary video showing his and his classmates experience doing research with primary source US government documents.
During the Spring of 2009, the National Security Archive hosted 10 student-interns from the College of William and Mary, along with their professor, Silvia Tandeciarz, to carry out analysis of the more than 8000 documents compiled by the Argentina Documentation Project of the Archive. The goal: to publish a briefing book – a discrete selection of US declassified documents that illustrate a unique episode in the history of US foreign policy. The internship was designed to do exactly that: provide 10 enthusiastic and academically trained interns to the Archive to advance our knowledge of human rights violations in Argentina under the military regime, and at the same time, to train students in hands on research using primary source US government documents. (more…)
