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

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