http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/11/what-can-go-into-the-national-archives/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/11/what-can-go-into-the-national-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-7393 Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 07/06/2009 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:44:05 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/11/what-can-go-into-the-national-archives/#comment-7393 [...] The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » What can go into the National Archives? [...] [...] The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » What can go into the National Archives? [...]

]]> http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/11/what-can-go-into-the-national-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-7232 Bryan Campen Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:47:55 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/11/what-can-go-into-the-national-archives/#comment-7232 Most disconcerting about this piece was learning how little of the record from either gulf war (Desert Shield or Iraqi Freedom) is archived, and when you compare that to tracing the history of the Viet Nam war it is truly astounding how little access we have to our recent past. The memos, letters, orders, transcripts and minutes of meetings from secretaries tto generals and White House advisors which comprise the backbone of any worthwhile history of a conflict are not, since at least the nineties, in those archives because of this one simple problem. Most disconcerting about this piece was learning how little of the record from either gulf war (Desert Shield or Iraqi Freedom) is archived, and when you compare that to tracing the history of the Viet Nam war it is truly astounding how little access we have to our recent past. The memos, letters, orders, transcripts and minutes of meetings from secretaries tto generals and White House advisors which comprise the backbone of any worthwhile history of a conflict are not, since at least the nineties, in those archives because of this one simple problem.

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