Historical Research, File Open To Use In The United States

The development of social science especially history directly depends on the opening of archives. History will be water without a source of no support from archives opening use.In western countries, the principle of opening use is praised as Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in the archives' field. The opening use of archives not only enlarges the range of archives' use, but also acknowledges and realizes the rights that all citizens have to make use of archives, at the same time embodying the political democracy. The archives work in the USA starts later than same European countries, but the speed is stupendous. Ordinary citizens and foreigner can inquire about archives or documents widely. It has been more than 200 years since the foundation for the USA.This young has acquired compelling achievements and the track of archives opening is a cut-in point to researching this phenomenon. As a coin has tow sides, the freedom of using archives is not absolutely, it has some limitation. Reviewing the historical process about archives opening use in the United States of America from the country's foundation to today is the question that my dissertation wants to answer.The preface of this dissertation discusses the reason why we review the process. Is the any practical value? It also introduces the status of academic research about American archives and its opening access and use. From this part you can know the archives opening in the U.S.A macroscopically.The main body of this dissertation is divided into five parts.The first part discusses the "the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" in the archives field in France and the start about the archives opening use in the USA.Making use of archives was the minority monopoly before the capitalistic society. It is "close-down" and archives are governing class's tools. French Revolution broke out in 1789, and archives began to reform subsequently. Then archives users were mainly historian. The ordinaries could go to inquire about archives according as the "principle of necessary know". These were the beginning of opening use.The second part discusses the archives going public length by length. The...