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National Archives

  • SOURCE: National Security Archive
    3/11/2022

    30-Year Flatline in NARA Budget Threatens Research, Transparency

    Chronic underfunding, combined with successive administrations' disdain for transparency, means that Freedom of Information Act requests are likely to languish for years before being fulfilled. It's long overdue to fund the National Archives for the public good. 

  • SOURCE: The New Yorker
    11/16/2020

    Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

    by Jill Lepore

    Reckoning with the Trump adminstration's actions and assigning moral or criminal sanction to any misdeeds will probably be compromised by the destruction or failure to maintain presidential records. 

  • SOURCE: CNN
    1/20/20

    The National Archives' dangerous corruption of history

    by David Perry

    While the National Archives issued an apology and vowed to undergo "a thorough review" of its policies after the Washington Post first reported on the alteration, having discovered it by chance, as a historian I worry about how many other altered documents the Trump administration has buried in our records. Will we ever know?

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    1/18/20

    National Archives says it was wrong to alter images

    “This photo is not an archival record held by the @usnatarchives, but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic,” it said in another tweet. “Nonetheless, we were wrong to alter the image.”