Protecting the Nation’s Memory

Linda K. Kerber is a professor of history at the University of Iowa has written a POV Column in the Chronicle on the National Archives and Records Administration allowing some federal agencies to withdraw declassified documents from public view and the Smithsonian Institution has signed an agreement with Showtime Networks to create an on-demand cable-television channel. That the Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to search the papers of the late investigative journalist Jack Anderson.
She asks have you thought about what those controversies mean taken together?