The talk on FOIA presented at the Next HOPE Conference, New York City, July 2014: A Beautiful Mosaic: How to Use FOIA to Fight Secrecy, Explore History, and Strengthen American Democracy Video File of Presentation, MP4, 185 MB
Video file of Presentation: MP4, 180 MB
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The talk on FOIA presented at the Next HOPE Conference, New York City, July 2010: Rummaging in the Government's Attic: Lessons Learned from More Than 1,000 Freedom of Information Act Requests,
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Audio file of presentation: MP3, 23.4 MB

Subject guide to thousands of publicly accessible FBI files - historic, notable, high-profile, or otherwise interesting cases (and their file numbers)  - with complete details for obtaining these files...
Secret No More

American University Washington College of Law - Collaboration on Government Secrecy
"non-partisan educational project devoted to openness in government, freedom of information, government transparency, and the study of "government secrecy" in the United States and internationally.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170720215208/https://www.wcl.american.edu/lawandgov/cgs/about.cfm

Russ Kick's The Memory Hole 2 web site is online "Rescuing Knowledge Freeing Information"
The Memory Hole 2

The newly launched sister site to The Memory Hole 2:
AltGov2

The National Security Archive FOIA Resources Page

Chuck Hansen's uscoldwar.com is about the SWORDS OF ARMAGEDDON History of the US Development of Nuclear Weapons - the first and only comprehensive illustrated history of the post-World War II design, development, and testing of U.S. nuclear weaponry available to the public - USCOLDWAR.COM

A very useful guidebook on FOIA:
Litigation: Under the Federal Open Government Laws, edited by Harry Hammitt

And the page which lists the above report:
Access Reports Freedom of Information, Access Reports Publications

The Department of Justice Guide to the Freedom of Information Act
https://www.justice.gov/oip/doj-guide-freedom-information-act-0

FOIA Strategy and Tactics Presentation 2018

HISTORY LAB

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