I'm sure they're making a reference of sorts to the popular PBS show 
"History Detectives"...

>Date:         Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:31:17 -0400
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>Judging from the librarian/archivist job title discussion, I know that
>this may be be a contested topic, but...for anyone who listened to the
>Morning Edition report on Mary Beth Corrigan, archivist at PNC/Riggs Bank
>(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5503791), I wonder
>who else was somewhat insulted by the fact that, when Mary Beth introduced
>herself as "the archivist for PNC/Riggs Bank," the reporter's voice-over
>comes back with, "But she is selling herself short; Mary Beth Corrigan is
>a 'history detective.'"
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>A "history detective?" Perhaps I'm being oversensitive here, but isn't
>that a little condescending? She's an archivist for heaven's sake, which
>is so much _more_ than that epithet suggests.
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>Sigh. Should I just be glad that archivists are being praised in the press?
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>Alison
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