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Collection Overview
| Size | 31 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 16,000 items) |
| Abstract | Contains research files, interviews, correspondence, photographs, and publicity materials documenting the career of Ann Blackman, a white journalist and author. This collection primarily pertains to Blackman's years as correspondent in Time's Moscow bureau (1987-1990), and her work on the books Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1998), The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History (Little Brown, 2002), and Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy (Random House, 2005). |
| Creator | Blackman, Ann |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Dawne Howard Lucas, December 2022
Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, December 2022
Updated by Jessica Venlet, Hannah Southern, Laura Smith, April 2023
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Biographical Information
Ann Blackman (b. 1946) is a white author and journalist. Blackman was a news correspondent for more than 30 years, including serving as foreign correspondent in Time's Moscow bureau from 1987 to 1990. Blackman has authored and co-authored several books, including Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1998), The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History (Little Brown, 2002), and Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy (Random House, 2005).
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Scope and Content
Contains research files, interviews, correspondence, photographs, and publicity materials documenting Ann Blackman's career as a journalist and author. This collection primarily pertains to Blackman's years as correspondent in Time's Moscow bureau (1987-1990), and her work on the books Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1998), The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History (Little Brown, 2002), and Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy (Random House, 2005).
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Series 1. Moscow Correspondent Files, 1986-1990.
Contains correspondence, research, and other files documenting Blackman's assignment as a correspondent in Time's Moscow bureau, 1987-1990.
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Series 2. Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright, 1930s-1998.
Includes research files, interviews, photographs, and publicity materials pertaining to the book Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1998). Albright was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997 and the United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001.
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Series 3. The Spy Next Door, 1990s-2002.
Includes research files, interviews, and photographs pertaining to the book The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History (Little Brown, 2002), co-authored with investigative journalist Elaine Shannon. Blackman did the research on Hanssen's personal background, family, religion, and the psychology of spying. Shannon concentrated on the spy craft. Shannon, who covered the FBI for Time for many years, received the original proposal to write the book and offered to split it 50-50 with Blackman. Hanssen was an Federal Bureau of Investigation double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001.
Box 11-13
Box 11Box 12Box 13 |
Research files, 1990s-2002 |
| Image Folder PF-70138/5 |
Photographs |
Audiocassette C-70138/1-6
C-70138/1C-70138/2C-70138/3C-70138/4C-70138/5C-70138/6 |
Interviews, May-June 2001 |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/1 |
Hanssen Family 1 |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/2 |
Hanssen Family 2 |
| Videotape VT-70138/6 |
Robert Hanssen: The X-Rated Spy (TLC) |
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Series 4. Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy, 1800s-2005.
Includes research files, drafts and proofs, photographs, publicity materials, and presentations pertaining to the book Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy (Random House, 2005). Materials include a transcription of Greenhow’s diary which, according to Blackman, "proves that Greenhow was, as far as we know today, the first American woman to represent her country (in this case, the Confederacy) overseas." There are also pieces of letters and codes used by Greenhow for her espionage activities. Box 18 contains a letter from The New York Times reporter Judith Miller, dated 20 August 2005, written during her imprisonment at the Alexandria Detention Center. Miller was held in contempt of court for refusing to name sources during the Plame affair investigation.
19th century materials are reproductions.
| Box 13 |
Research files: A-C |
| Box 14 |
Research files: C-G |
| Box 15 |
Research files: H-R |
| Box 16 |
Research files: S-R |
Research files: London and Paris researchIncludes notes explaining Greenhow's long-lost diary. |
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Box 16-17
Box 16Box 17 |
Research files: Notebooks |
| Box 17 |
Research files: Additional research files |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/3 |
Richmond newspapers, 1862-1863 |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/4 |
Files from the Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers, North Carolina State Archives, 1863-1864 |
Box 17-18
Box 17Box 18 |
Drafts and proofs |
| Box 18 |
Promotional materials |
Publicity/talksIncludes a letter from The New York Times reporter Judith Miller, dated 20 August 2005, written during her imprisonment at the Alexandria Detention Center. Miller was held in contempt of court for refusing to name sources during the Plame affair investigation. |
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| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/5 |
Rose cover, etc. (travel) |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/6 |
WAMC Northeast Public Radio: The Roundtable,, 1 August 2005 |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/7 |
Presentation: International Spy Conference, Raleigh, N.C., 31 August 2005-2 September 2005 |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/8 |
Presentation: National Archives |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/9 |
Presentation: Order of Confederate Rose |
| Music Compact Disc CD-70138/10 |
Presentation: Virginia Historical Society |
Image Folder PF-70138/6-8
PF-70138/6PF-70138/7PF-70138/8 |
Photographs |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-70138/2 |
A Confederate Spy in Prison - Mrs. Greenhow and Her Little Daughter,From The Photographic History of the Civil War, published by the Review of Reviews Co. |
Advertisement for John Greenhow's general store, Williamsburg, Va. |
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| Audiocassette C-70138/7 |
Excerpts from Rose Greenhow's "My Imprisonment," 2000Read by Sara Bartlett. Copyright 2000, Eileen Conklin & Thomas Publications |
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Series 5. Other materials, 1980s-2000s.
Includes materials pertaining to Blackman's other projects.
| Box 19 |
Rolodex cards and Time D.C. Bureau correspondents phone list |
Time issues, 1988-2000 |
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Sentencing project/crime bill research files, 1994 |
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| Image Folder PF-70138/9 |
Photographs of Ann Blackman taken by Time photographer Diana Walker, 1990 |
| Image Folder PF-70138/10 |
Other photographsIncludes a photograph of Ann Blackman and Alexandra Avakian in Moscow, January 1989. |
| Videotape VT-70138/7 |
NewsStand: CNN & Time, Show #14, 14-15 September 1998Contains news coverage pertaining to the "Starr Report" (officially the Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirement of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c)), released on 11 September 1998. |
| Audiocassette C-70138/8 |
Interview with Hadassah Lieberman |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-70138/3 |
Poster: We Love LiddyInscription: To Ann - Keep coming back to Salisbury! With all best wishes, "Liddy" Dole. Also signed by Dole's mother, Mary Hanford. |
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