Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society

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Introduction by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace Explanation Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers by James M. O'Toole Monumental Blunder: The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada by Terry Cook Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information by Kimberly Barata, et al. Secrecy Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran-Contra and Its Investigations by David A. Wallace The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS Versus a Democratic Society by Shelley Davis Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection by Robin L. Chandler and Susan Storch Memory The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory by Tywanna Whorley Turning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust-Era Assets, 1996-2001: An Archivist's Memoir by Greg Bradsher They Should Have Destroyed More: The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990-1994 by Verne Harris Trying to Write Comprehensive and Accurate History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective by Anne Van Camp Trust What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems by David B. Gracy II The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks by Victoria L. Lemieux The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: Our Documents Are Ourselves: A Lesson Renewed from the Fabrikant by Barbara L. Craig Records and the Public Interest: The Heiner Affair in Queensland, Australia, by Chris Hurley Index

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