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Cross-postings | An interview with archivist Chris Laico about the Columbia Human Rights

Posted on 2020-01-10 by Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Our colleagues in Global Studies sat down with RBML archivists Chris Laico to discuss archives and his daily work with the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research. I view my work as similar to an eternal graduate student, in a good way. I learn something every day. There is a fundamental need to understand […]

Telford Taylor and the Precedent of the Nuremberg Trials

Posted on 2018-01-26 by cl880

Archivist Christopher M. Laico shares the significance of the Telford Taylor Papers as the collection relates to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. DATELINE: Washington, DC, 9 May 1949. In a statement to the International News Service, U.S. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor announced the official end of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Taylor declared: “I venture to predict […]