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The article presents a list of archival resources related to labor history available in the parliamentary papers of the then-colonies of Tasmania and Western Australia from the second half of the 19th century, organized into topical sections such as immigration, convict labor, railways, and public works.

Cohort analyses in which the joint effects of aging, historical change and birth cohort membership are estimated for some dependent variable are often desirable on substantive grounds Unless two of these three variables are viewed as indexing identical unmeasured causal factors, any analysis which makes estimates for only two of the three variables is subject to spurious results. But three-way cohort analysis is problematic because age, time period and birth cohort are linearly dependent on each other. Although this con founding makes estimation of some three-way cohort models impossible, this paper demonstrates that estimation is feasible in a number of such models. By exploring estimates derived for some of these models from hypothetical data for which the underlying effects are known, this paper also shows that meaningful three-way cohort analysis is difficult unless the researcher entertains relatively strong hypotheses about the nature of aging, period and cohort effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the importance of recorded fact and the written communication. The years of social turmoil, rapid change, and furious activity brought by the war have produced many new facts with which to reckon, many new ideas to be sifted, and many new unusual documents to be studied. The field of education is among the most thoroughly indexed and summarized of the academic disciplines. This paper recognizes the value of the general library aids. The librarian's professional books and the general reference works often used by most educators. In most cases they provide the only source of information about material which one seeks, and in most cases they offer additional material.

The article reports that documents in the French national archives, dated through the year 1919, are now open to the public. The principal exceptions to the new regulation are documents restricted by the depositing ministry at the time of deposit and confidential papers concerning public figures who are still living.

Encourages a deeper study of the American indian by using national archives in the custody of the Archivist of the United States. Adjustments to the scholar's research methodology to optimize the use of the records; Consideration of the absence of any organizational scheme in the record keeping; Identification of the basic types of archival series; Understanding the different origins of archival resources.