Historiographical disputes/debates FYI:

Apparently there are a number of private archives worldwide, owned by families, etc. I'm a research intern with a history professor at The University of Kansas, and I ask him a looooooot of questions about what it means to be a historian, etc. This is how I came to be aware of these private archives...he told me they are accessed sometimes (he used the example of 1800s(?)primary source documents inherited by and maintained by a powerful family in Chiapas, I believe--obviously a very specific kind of document that couldn't be found elsewhere), but getting permission is difficult. As such, it can be difficult to impossible for fellow peer reviewers to verify content from a source that comes from a private archive....he told me there have been rare cases where people have fudged the documents, citing them from a private, hard to access archive, and been caught.

I will do some digging and try to find a concrete example....Doubt something like that would make the news though :P anyone else have any stories or info about historian scandals??

Edit: formatting