Research Catalog

Title

Archives and the public good : accountability and records in modern society / edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cox, Richard J.
• Wallace, David A., 1961-

Description

vi, 340 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Archives > Social aspects
• Archives > Administration > Case studies
• Records > Management > Case studies
• Common good
• Public interest
• Responsibility

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Richard J. Cox, David A. Wallace -- Explanation -- Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers / James M. O'Toole -- "A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada / Terry Cook -- Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information / Kimberly Barata, Piers Cain, Dawn Routledge, Justus Wamukoya -- Secrecy -- Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran-Contra Affair and Its Investigations / David A. Wallace -- The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society / Shelley Davis -- Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection / Robin L. Chandler, Susan Storch -- Memory -- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory / Tywanna Whorley -- Turning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust-Era Assets, 1996-2001 / 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 / Verne Harris -- Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective / Anne Van Camp -- Trust -- What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems / David B. Gracy II -- The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks / Victoria L. Lemieux.

ISBN

1567204694 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001057863

OCLC

• 48550928
• SCSB-11005111

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library