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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822438203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-61411-8

1-280-91366-5

9786610913664

0-313-00672-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 340 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

CoxRichard J

WallaceDavid A. <1961->

Disciplina

027

Soggetti

Archives - Social aspects

Archives - Administration

Records - Management

Common good

Public interest

Responsibility

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 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, andJustus 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 and 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 -- The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair -- Barbara L. Craig -- Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia -- Chris Hurley.