ARCHIVES AND THE PUBLIC GOOD

Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace, Editors

Ó 2002 All Rights Reserved

 

   About the Contributors and Editors

Introduction, Richard J. Cox and 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, and 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 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 Record-Keeping 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

 

Index

 

About the Contributors and Editors